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Air passengers in deep trouble

Staff Correspondent
Besides triggering countrywide violence, the ongoing blockade enforced by the 18-party opposition combine has been causing immense suffering to air passengers at Dhaka airport.
Passengers willing to travel abroad had to leave home for the capital three or four days before their flight schedule.
One of them is Ramzan Ali. Along with his cousin Byron Islam, Ramzan came to Dhaka from Chapainawabganj on Sunday to make sure they do not miss their flight to Iraq last night.
They spent more than Tk 5,000 for their three-night stay at a city hotel. The migrating workers were more saddened by a different fact though.
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"I suffered monetary loss, but what hurts me more than that is I could have spent three more days with my family before leaving the country," Ramzan told The Daily Star at Shahjalal International Airport.
Like him, some other passengers at the airport narrated their ordeals to this correspondent.
"As soon as I heard of the blockade, I left my home in Sirajganj for Dhaka," said Md Akkas, a migrant worker to Malaysia.
"I reached the airport around 3:00am on Tuesday and waited here for the whole day," mentioned Akkas, whose flight was scheduled at 1:00am Wednesday.
He starved for hours as the food he had brought with him ran out by noon.
Most of the incoming passengers experienced similar suffering as well.
Manik Ali of Bagerhat, who landed in Dhaka from Dubai yesterday afternoon, was found anxiously waiting outside the airport's canopy area after he learned that he will not be able to
travel home due to the blockade.
"Since I have no other option, I'll have to stay in a hotel," he said.
Some incoming passengers, however, were taking trains or launches to reach their homes, risking their lives.
Travelling in the capital was not hassle free either. Drivers of rental vehicles, particularly the drivers of the CNG-run three-wheelers, were charging the passengers three to four times higher than the normal fares.