, Sept. 1 -- kilometer long tailback has been created on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway on Tuesday as BNP activists blocked the highway at Bashbaria in Sitakunda upazila following a clash between two factions of BNP that left several people injured.

Vehicular movement on the highway remained suspended for one-and-a-half-hours due to the clash centering the party's founding anniversary.

The supporters of two BNP leaders--Lion Aslam Chowdhury and Kazi Salahuddin--called rallies at Moon Star Community Centre to mark the party's founding anniversary in Sitakunda upazila, said Mahinul Islam, Officer-in-Charge of Sitakunda Model Police Station.

Supporters of Aslam Chowdhury had been gathering at the community centre field since morning, while supp...