Staff Reporter :
Activists of two factions of the ruling party’s student front Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) locked into clashes over establishing supremacy on the campus on Saturday evening.
At least 10 students, injured from both the factions, were rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) instantly. Of them, some are bullet injured. The college unit Joint-Convener Sheikh Russel and activists Md Sujon and Mahmud are in a critical condition.
The unruly activists of the BCL vandalized several rooms of North Hostel and International Hostel of the college, and torched more than 12 motorcycles, and fired gun shots during the clash.
A team of police late in the evening yesterday raided residential hostels with the permission of the college authorities to recover the illegal arms and nab the non-residential students, police said.
The raid is going on still writing this filing of this report at 10:30 in the night.
Maruf Hosain Sarder, Deputy Commissioner (Ramna Zone) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told The New Nation
on Saturday night, “Some supporters of Nur-e-Alam Bhuiyan alias Razu, Convener of the college BCL unit, attacked the activists of the Joint-Convener Heron Bhuiyan in front of the Sheikh Kamal Hostel on the campus around 6:45pm.
At least two students received bullet injuries during the clash. At one stage, the excited supporters of Heron torched 12 motorcycles and vandalized eight rooms of North Hostel of the college.
“We are conducting raids in the hostels of the college to recover the illegal arms, and nab the non-residential students,” the police official said.
Additional police personnel were deployed in the college premises to avert any untoward situation, he said.
