A schoolgirl and a woman go through the barbed-wire fence on the central reservation of Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue yesterday. Instead of using the footbridge just a few yards away, pedestrians often risk their lives this way to go to the other side of the street. In September last year, a madrasa student was hit by a bus and killed there when he tried to cross the street this way. Photo: Prabir Das
Slow rickshaw vans ply the Dhaka-Chittagong highway with heavy and oversized loads of iron bars at Shanir Akhra in Narayanganj. Photo: Anisur Rahman
CNG-run auto-rickshaws and other vehicles make U-turns from and on to the fast lane there. Such practices often cause accidents as vehicles are at speed on the highway. Photo: Anisur Rahman
President Abdul Hamid talks to Jatiya Party (Manju) Chairman Anwar Hossain Manju who led a 16-member delegation during talks at Bangabhaban yesterday on formation of the next Election Commission. Photo: PID
