A speeding bus knocked down Abul Hossain, 35, an employee of a shop in City Super Market at Fulbaria under Motijheel Police Station early in the morning. He was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he died, sources said.

Angry shopkeepers of City Super Market took to the street at about 9:00am protesting Abul's death. Transport workers of Fulbaria bus stand pelted brickbats at the procession, prompting a series of chase and counter-chase between shopkeepers and transport workers, locals said.

However, transport workers alleged that shop employees indiscriminately pelted at them from market rooftop, injuring at least 13 people and damaging around 40 vehicles.

At least 30 people were injured during the hour-long clashes, police said.

Shopkeepers of eight markets in the area kept their shutters down for nine hours till 5:00pm fearing further violence.

Three people were killed and two others became maimed in five road accidents in Fulbaria area during last one-month, shopkeepers said.

A police contingent was deployed in Fulbaria area to avert any untoward incident, locals added.

At Malibagh, an enraged mob set fire to a covered van after it killed a private car driver at around 1:30pm.

The van rammed Bazlur Rahman Shakil, 30, near Malibagh intersection, killing him on the spot, hospital sources said.

Locals chased and seized the vehicle and damaged it before setting it ablaze. The crowd also damaged the signboard of New Era Medical in Malibagh, witnesses said.

Bazlur was going to his sister's Malibagh house to deliver the death news of their mother who died an hour before the accident, family members said.

In another incident, an unidentified young man died on the spot after he was crushed under the wheels of a speeding truck at Khilkhet in Badda at about 1:00am.