Barishal, Feb. 4 -- Fruit traders have blocked Barishal-Dhaka highway demanding allotment of some new stalls built by Barishal City Corporation (BCC) without lottery.

The vendors put barricades in Hatem Ali Choumatha area on the highway around 11am on Tuesday, disrupting the vehicular movement and causing suffering of commuters.

The traders said they had been doing business for a long time after taking a piece of land on lease from Zilla Parishad .

But, the BCC got the ownership of the land after demarcating its boundary when Barishal municipality upgraded to a city corporation.

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