The long-route bus services from the capital came to a halt on Saturday amid the ongoing student protests.
Vehicular movement on different national highways surrounding Dhaka stopped on the day as they were blocked at different points by students and protesters.
Amid the countrywide student protests for quota reform at least 217 people killed in clashes and in the aftermath between July 16 and August 3.
The government imposed a countrywide curfew and deployed military midnight past July 19, allowing long-route buses to run during the period when the curfew was relaxed.
On Saturday, the protesting students under the banner of the Students Movement Against Discrimination platform staged demonstrations as part of their programme of countrywide protest rallies.
The demonstrators blocked different points of the Dhaka-Chattogram, Dhaka-Aricha, Dhaka-Sylhet, Dhaka-Barishal and Dhaka-Tangail-Bangabandhu Bridge national highways.
Bangladesh Bus-Truck Owners Association and Gabtoli Bus Terminal Owners Association president Ramesh Chandra Ghosh said that since afternoon they had stopped running long-route buses from Dhaka.
鈥楾he students blocked different highways at different places,鈥� he said and added that in this circumstance they could not run buses fearing vandalism and safety of the passengers.
Ramesh, also managing director of Shymoli Paribahan, said that some buses from Chattogram and Cox鈥檚 Bazar would return Dhaka on Saturday night.
He mentioned that the protesters blocked Dhaka-Chattogram and Dhaka-Sylhet highways in Jatrabari area and Dhaka-Aricha highway in Jahangirnagar University area.
At Chandra in Gazipur district the protesters also blocked the Dhaka-Tangail highway, he added.
Mohakhali Bus Terminal Owners Association president Abul Kalam said that since 3:00pm on Saturday they had stopped running buses from the terminal.
鈥極nce the students will go we will resume the services,鈥� he said.
On Saturday, city service buses inside the capital were seen running.
The Bangladesh Railway on August 1 resumed train services only on short distances, about two weeks after it had stopped the services.
Railway director traffic (commercial) Md Nahid Hasan Khan told 抖阴精品 on Saturday that the trains on short distances ran on the day.
