At night, on a busy highway of Dhaka city a lot of buses with many passengers inside of it and cars with a few people were running up and down to their destinies. All of a sudden, a bus shoved off at the back side of another bus not very hard, because the bus driver could press the brake tightly in proper time, otherwise a deadly accident could have happened. The cause of the incident was that the engine of the bus ahead had stopped unexpectedly without giving any kind of anticipation, therefore the driver had had nothing to do with it. The crash between two buses made the both buses shook off, that some passengers on the both buses more or less got hurt not severely, and particularly the passengers who were sitting or standing at the back side of the bus ahead got more hurt than others.
Just as the incident occurred, the passengers of the two buses started hollering. At first, the Passengers of the both buses tried to blame the driver of the bus, which had taken the active role in the case. But after a while the passengers of the bus behind, when they heard the bus ahead of them had stopped abruptly itself, begun to blame the driver of the bus ahead. Accordingly, the passengers on the two buses started to blame the driver of the other bus and they felt sympathy the driver of the bus of which they were passengers. The passenger who had been standing or sitting at the back side of the bus ahead, getting more furious than others, in order to get out of the bus and then to attack the other bus that caused them to get hurt started hastening along the narrow passage between two rows of seats inside the bus.
The bus behind veered its track and without any trouble crossed the bus ahead for it was standing still as the engine of the bus was not getting started in spite of trying repeatedly, then came ahead leaving the other bus behind. The passenger of the bus that now ahead saw out of the window some people coming toward their bus in very frantic mood, running and abusing the bus driver.
The passenger of the bus easily understood that people who were running to them, no one but the passengers of another bus. In no time the passenger of the bus got angry with these people. So everyone who was seated on the bus stood up instantaneously from their seat in agitation and who was standing started to move ahead. In the meantime, people who had been running held the rod at the door of the bus firmly with their hand as to make the bus stop then get into it. The driver of the bus now ahead was bound to stop the bus to save the people from getting down on the highway which could have been the cause of dire consequence. As soon as the bus stopped, they got on the footboard of the bus now ahead. Some very agitated passenger of the bus who had already reached at the gate engaged themselves with this person in mayhem. At one point the passenger of the bus succeeded in knocking down other people on the highway, and then they also get down on the highway and started beating them.
Noticing the matter, the passenger of another bus left behind get out of the bus rushed to the bus in groups, in attacking moods. Having perceived this matter well the all of the passengers of the bus now ahead also got out of the bus and rushed to them who were coming furiously. Thus the two groups of agitated people encroach into other group as in the wars between the soldiers of two countries in ancient time and became one massive group and started rioting. As the two groups of people were not in two kinds of uniform, unlike the soldiers of the two countries in the battlefield so that it was almost impossible for people to identify men, whether they belonged to their own group or not, resulting they beat the man with their hand whom they got nearby. Thus fighting continued for some time.
Suddenly, one man who was already severely wounded by some crazy men of the crowd in order to free himself from the frantic mob started to run across the road. He was so afraid of the mob and so busy in running that he hadn’t the even the slightest chance of noticing a bus that was coming with its full speed. As a result, when he was in the middle of the road knocked down as the bus hit him with its whole might. But the driver of the bus was able to press the brake tightly before the man were trespassed by the wheels of the bus. No sooner they crazy flock heard the sound of the crash stopped fighting with each other and in a moment become a mob of very sympathetic people. Then a man pronounced that the man who had been knocked down belonged to the throng. At these words, feeling the man as their own guy, instantaneously the mob hurried to the place the injured man was lying down unconscious before the stopped bus as to rescue and take him to hospital and to take vengeance to the bus.
Having reached near the place, the mob divided into two groups: one with more sympathetic people and the other with more crazy people. The group of kind people was smaller than the other. Anyway, some men who were ahead lifted the body of the injured man stained with blood with their arms caringly and others stood around in a circle. At the moment, everybody present there were lamenting. And they seemed to be family members of the man. Some other people by themselves made a private car stopped with their hand signal. In spite the owner of the private car was not consented, the injured man was placed on a back seat of two the private car with two men of the people who first had reached for the man, the bloody head was on the one man’s lap and the legs were on the other man’s lap. Many people very close to the car were trying to get on the private car jolting with each other, but at last only three people succeeded in getting on and in no time announced to the people who were still bumping to get on not to enter because there was no room left for even one and closed the door. The people inside and outside of the cars, tears gathered in their eyes and was about to roll down on their checks. They seemed to be close relatives of the wounded man. The people inside of the car bid the driver in choking voice with sobbing to go nearby hospital as fast as he could go. The owner of the private car had been obliged to be seated beside the driver with his sulky face.
Well, another group of people feeling vengeance in their heart got crazier than before started to smash the glass of the windows and windscreen of the bus using brickbats, which had hit the man of their throng. After a while, as a result, as before, they involved themselves ultimately in a riot with the passenger on the bus.
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