Shawdesh desk:

Battery-run auto-rickshaw drivers on Tuesday blocked the busy Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur for three hours protesting the killing of one of their fellows allegedly by bus workers on Monday.

The protest continued till 11:00am starting 8:00am on the highway in Gargaria Master Bari area under Sreepur upazila of Gazipur, witnesses said.

The commuters were the worst suffers due to the blockade as vehicular movement came to a halt on both sides of the highway.

Sources said a looking glass of a Taqwa Paribahan bus broke when it hit an auto-rickshaw from behind in the Gargaria Master Bari area on Monday afternoon, leading to an argument between the bus helpers and the auto-rickshaw driver.

At one stage, the bus helpers took away the driver in their bus and left his body in Natun Bazar area allegedly after killing him.

Officer-in-charge of Sreepur police station Joynal Abedin Mandol said the auto-rickshaw driver died after he was thrown off from the moving bus.

A murder case was filed with the police station in this regard, he said, adding that drives were under way to arrest those involved in the killing.