Local people on Tuesday set a bus on fire and put up a barricade on Bamia Sardarbari intersection protesting the death of a schoolboy in a road accident in Koyra upazila of Khulna district, said police.
Quoting local people, sub-inspector of Koyra Police station Babon Das said a 14-year-old schoolboy, identified as Ramjan Ali, a class VIII student and son of Kinu Ali Sardar of the upazila, was killed when the Paikgachcha-bound bus knocked down him while he was returning home from school by a bicycle around 2:30 pm.
Angered by the accident, local people put up a barricade on Bamia Sardarbari intersection and set the bus on fire.
Later, local people cleared the road after police intervention.
Source: United News of Bangladesh