Some armed transport workers set an example of new aggression in Sylhet town on Saturday.

Chagrined at the police arrest of a compatriot in a dacoity case, transport workers had gone for strike on Sylhet-Monglabazar road. Local people called a meeting to protest the sudden stoppage in vehicular traffic inviting thereby the wrath of armed transport workers who rushed to foil it. The people at the venue of the meeting giving them a chase, the transport workers relented briefly but thereafter an armed group of them went back to avenge their pursuers. The police had to intervene taking five workers into custody in the process.

This long chain of events culminated in the armed transport workers carrying off from the police van not only the five arrested but also a police constable and one of the Ansar personnel along.

The transport workers have dared both the law enforcement personnel and the local people in their no-holds-barred militancy. The fact Js they have done this on the weakest possible ground: Their colleague whose arrest by the police in connection with robbery had set off the chain reaction has himself admitted to his Involvement In the crime.

We give the police and Ansar a big hand for their good work done under very trying circumstances. Hopefully, they have seen already saved from the clutches of die armed pirates and that they would be more equipped to deal with a situation like that next time around.