Twenty four hours have passed since a Savar-bound bus plunged into Turag river near Savar's Aminbazar with about 50 people in it. The bus is yet to be located despite frantic search and heavy deployment.
Traffic movement on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway resumes as angry locals withdrawn their 45-minutes blockade at 11am, the second such incident in a day, protesting the delay of search operations.
They had previously blocked both ends of the bridge that witnessed the tragic accident, on Sunday evening.
The previous blockade remained for barely a few minutes as law enforcers charged batons on them and cleared the streets immediately. Earlier on Sunday evening, law enforcers had to resort to force to control the thousands of people thronging both sides of the street near the accident site.
Almost 23 hours into the accident, officials have yet to locate the bus.
A specialist team has joined search efforts around 10am, immediate efforts of divers, SONAR and scanners have all failed to yield any results.
Officials on site say, search operations are being severely hindered by the strong currents of the Turag.
After a frantic search with the help of naval sound navigation and ranging equipment and thereafter scanners, the bus could not be located till 10:25am.
Deputy commander Maniruzzaman, who is leading the navy personnel at the search, the operation could not be conducted thoroughly due to the strong currents of Turag.
He told reporters at 6am on Monday that search operations conducted by divers and machines had failed to locate the bus.
Fire service deputy director of operations Bharat Chandra Biswas told bdnews24.com around 4am that the search party had called off their efforts. "But we will soon initiate the search with the aid of scanners."
The subsequent search for the sunken did not yield any results.
Soon after the bus had sunk, eight of those people reached the shore. Unfortunately one among them, a third year university student, died on her way to hospital. But there has been no news of the rest of the passengers.
With strong current reported by navy and fire service divers any hopes of rescuing survivors has all but vanished. Law enforcers have already had to charge batons on the thousands of local people who protested at the pace of search work.
Rescuers have finally located the bus 25 hours after it had plunged into river Turag on Sunday.
Local MP Talukder Towhid Jang Murad, present on the spot, formally announced the information to the local people and reporters at 12:30pm on Monday
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