‘If everyone goes on holiday, who will do the work?’

He was raising a hand, stopping the traffic at the Bijoy Sarani intersection in the capital. With is other hand he was signalling to the vehicles on the other side to proceed. Traffic police, Constable Alamgir Hossain, was on duty during Eid. He said, “If everyone goes on holiday, who will do the work?”

At around 12:30 Thursday afternoon, Eid day, security guard Limon Banu was on duty at the ATM booth of a private and at Panthapath. He is from Birampur upazila of Dinajpur, but could not go home for Eid because of his duty. After offering prayers at the Eid congregation in the morning, he first called his father over mobile phone. He then spoke to his mother too. He took their blessings and assured his mother that he would go home once he got leave after Eid.

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