Staff Reporter :
Hundreds of teachers, students and employees of Ibne Sina Hospital on Thursday protested the death of their colleague Shahinoor Akhter Tania, who was killed after gang-rape in Kishoreganj three days ago.
Forming a human chain in front of the hospital’s Kalyanpur branch, they demanded exemplary punishment to those who were involved with the rape and murder of Tania, a senior nurse of the hospital.
The protesters began their one-hour demonstration around 10:30am. They blocked Mirpur Road and withdrew it after a few minutes considering sufferings of people.
In the meantime, several hundred people staged demonstration for justice at Central Shaheed Minar in the morning.
Besides, All walks of lives, including right bodies’ leaders, staged demonstration after holding human chain in Kishoreganj district town in the morning.
They also organized human chain and chanted exemplary punishment, reports our district correspondent.
The demonstrators submitted memorandum also to the Deputy Commissioner of the district.
On Monday night, Tania, who worked at Ibne Sina Hospital’s Kalyanpur branch in the capital, was raped and murdered in passenger bus on her way to village home in Kishoreganj’s Katiadi upazila.
On Wednesday, Kishoreganj’s Civil Surgeon said that the autopsy report of Tania found evidence that she was gang-raped and murdered.
Her nose, neck, legs and hands bore injury marks which suggested that she had a scuffle. The back of her head was fractured as well, said civil surgeon Md Habibur Rahman, quoting a three-member team of doctors who performed the autopsy yesterday.
“She suffered profuse bleeding in her head. It might be the cause of her death,” said Habibur.
Police arrested five people, including the bus driver Md Nuruzzaman, 39, and his helper Lalon Mia, 33, for their alleged involvement in the incident early Tuesday.
