Activists and supporters of the banned Awami League have blocked the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in the Shuwadi Bus Stand area of Faridpur’s Bhanga Upazila as part of the party’s “Dhaka lockdown” programme. The protesters felled a tree and set tires on fire. Many of the protesters blocking the road were armed with sticks and machetes. Locals say that some Awami League supporters and activists had taken up positions on the road since early in the morning in support of the lockdown. Several calls were made to the mobile phone of Ashraf Hossain, chief of Bhanga Police Station, for comment, but he did not pick up.
