Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- After receiving assurances of a solution, protesters have withdrawn a blockade of the railway tracks and roads in Brahmanbaria's Akhaura Upazila after five hours.

They withdrew the blockade around 11:15 am on Sunday, said District BNP General Secretary and District Council Administrator Md Sirajul Islam.

Locals had blocked the railway tracks and roads from 6am in protest against the formation of a new union in Akhaura Upazila using six villages in Sadar Upazila of Brahmanbaria.

Protesters blocked the Dhaka-Chattogram and Dhaka-Sylhet railway lines and the Akhaura-Agartala international road in the Kodda area of the Sadar Upazila under the banner of Basudeb Union residents.

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