282 Callers Get 999 Help in a Week
In seven days before Eid-ul-Azha, 282 people called 999 over animal trucks forced into markets, extortion, counterfeit notes and drugging gangs.
In seven days before Eid-ul-Azha, 282 people called 999 over animal trucks forced into markets, extortion, counterfeit notes and drugging gangs.
Sacrificial animals tied in garages and forecourts have turned Dhaka's apartment buildings into makeshift cowsheds before Eid.
DMP detectives arrested three members of a gang that drugged traders and buyers at Dhaka's Eid cattle markets and robbed them.
Small illegal cattle markets have appeared across Sylhet city's neighbourhoods, but high prices are keeping sales slow ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.
Buyers at Bogura's cattle markets say lessees are charging two or three times the government toll on sacrificial animals, with no rate lists on display.
A tape measure and a quick calculation can help Eid buyers judge how much meat a cow will yield and whether it is healthy.
Monsoon rain has kept buyers away from Dhaka's cattle markets in the final days before Eid-ul-Azha, leaving sellers struggling in the mud.
Truckloads of animals have filled the markets of Rupganj in Narayanganj, but sales have yet to pick up fully, disappointing sellers and lessees.
Large cattle are on offer at Feni's Eid markets, but buyers are crowding around small and medium animals.
A cattle market has been held on a Nilphamari college ground for Eid, with the principal saying no permission is needed and officials saying they gave none.
A mobile court in Gaibandha's Palashbari fined two people Tk 45,000 for collecting excess tolls at a cattle market.
The administration has taken a hard line on extortion, illegal tolls and obstruction of livestock transport before Eid-ul-Azha, with the 999 emergency service playing a key role.
Narayanganj's qurbani markets are filling with cattle from across the country, but most visitors are still only checking prices.