Dhaka, Oct. 28 -- A strike by private ambulance owners demanding parking space at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) has left grieving families and critically ill patients in severe distress.

From Tuesday afternoon, relatives of the dead ran around the hospital and its surroundings in vain for a vehicle to take bodies home.

Many were seen carrying them in CNG-run autorickshaws or pickup vans after waiting for hours.

Families of critical patients could not move them to other hospitals.

Heartbreaking scenes unfolded on the hospital premises, where the grandson of 70-year-old Halima Begum from Narayanganj waited over three hours after her death at 3:30pm without securing an ambulance for Mawa.

"I never imagined such trouble," he said...