Bus strike on 19 routes in south Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar was withdrawn yesterday three hours after its enforcement. Transport service providers enforced the strike on the routes at 12:30 pm protesting assault on transport workers and attack on a bus counter. They enforced the strike as a group of miscreants identifying themselves as BCL men launched an attack on a ticket counter of S Alam Paribahan before Chandgaon police station in the city. The attackers also assaulted  transport workers failing to avail front row ticket from the S Alam Paribahan bus counter.  Witnesses said that a group of 25-30 young men locked into an altercation with the transport workers and counter men. Later, they vandalised the bus counter. Mohammad Musa, president of Bangladesh Road Transport Workers’ Federation, Chittagong told The Independent that some students of Premier University identifying themselves as BCL men launched the attack on the transport workers. “They also vandalised the S Alam Paribahan bus counter. Later we decided to suspend bus movement on 19 routes of south Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar. However, considering National Mourning Day and after getting assurance from police, we called off the strike,” added the transport leader. Mohammad Yasin, officer-in-charge of Chandgaon Police Station, said it was a matter of  misunderstanding between the young men and transport workers.