Rush of vehicles at Shimulia

The rush of passengers, private cars and goods-laden vehicles are increasing at Shimulia ghat from Saturday morning ahead of hard lockdown.

In the meantime, a large number of people from Dhaka and South Bengal are running towards the ghat for returning their respective village homes as the government announced a seven-day strict lcokdown across the country from Monday.

The ghat and local sources said a total of 14 ferries are moving on Shimulia-Banglabazar route. The passengers are crossing the ghats ignoring the lockdown and health rules. Ferries are full of passengers. Most of them have no face masks.

BIWTC's Shimulia ghat terminal superintendent Mehedi hasan said they are operating 14 ferries , out of 15. As per the lockdown rules, only vehicles carrying patients and emergency vehicles are allowed to cross. But the passengers are coming defying the ban. A long queue of the vehicles are on the ghat.