Online Desk : A ferry with eight ambulances which carrying more than thousand passengers left Shimulia-Banglabazar Ghat on Monday morning, ignoring the government’s travel restrictions amid lockdown.

BIWTC`s official of Shimulia Ghat Ahmmed Ali said the ambulances with bodies gathered at the ghat this morning for crossing the ferry. Then a large number of Eid holidaymaker, waiting for the ambulances, got into the vehicles.

Jamuna IT-395 ferry left the ghat at about 10:20am with the ambulances.

Those failed to got into, gathered at number 3 ghat.

As the risk of spreading new variants of coronavirus looms large in the country, ferry services have been suspended at the Shimulia Ferry Terminal in Munshiganj, as there is excessive pressure of passengers at the river port.