80-km tailback on Dhaka-Ctg highway

Homebound passengers got stuck in an 80-kilometre traffic jam on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway from Daudkandi toll plaza to Chouddagram in Comilla since early Thursday after a collision between two vehicles.
Havilder Kamrul Hasan, Daudkandi Highway Police Station, said a lorry collided with a covered van at Jinglatoli in Daudkandi around 5:00am, halting traffic movement on the highway.
No casualty was reporters in the collision, reports a Daudkandi correspondent.
Though police removed both the damaged vehicles using a wrecker, the condition could not be eased till 11:00am when the report was filed.