A number of folks, together with journalists, have been injured in Bangladesh on Monday after a violent conflict broke out between college students of Dhaka College (DU) and Dhaka Faculty within the capital’s Nilkhet and New Market areas, native media reported. The unrest erupted over a dispute involving the organising of retailers on the footpath in entrance of DU’s Shahnewaz Hostel, which subsequently escalated right into a chase and counter-chase between the 2 sides.
Citing eye witnesses, Bangladesh’s main each day, The Enterprise Customary, reported that each teams hurled bricks and stones, making a chaotic scene within the space.
Experiences recommend that explosions occurred amid the violence, whereas the DU college students demanded higher safety, and police intervened to revive order.
Confirming the event, Mohammad Jahangir, Assistant Commissioner of the New Market Zone of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), stated, “An altercation broke out, resulting in the conflict. As a result of insufficient police presence at evening, extra forces needed to be known as in. The scenario was introduced beneath management round 2:30 am.”
Concerning the explosions that have been reported, the senior police official stated that it has not been confirmed whether or not the explosives have been crude bombs.
Following the incident, college students of Shahnewaz hostel gathered outdoors the DU Vice-Chancellor’s residence, calling for safety and elevating slogans together with, “Cocktails in our corridor, whereas the administration sleeps.”
“Round 1:00 am, some Dhaka Faculty college students tried to evict the retailers in entrance of the hostel gate and vandalised a couple of. When our college students protested, they attacked us and later returned with extra folks, pelting brick chips on the hostel and setting off three explosions in entrance of the dormitory,” Bangladesh’s main newspaper The Every day Star quoted Mehraz Zaman Hira, a resident of Shahnewaz hostel, as saying.
“Dhaka Faculty college students tried to occupy the area in entrance of our corridor by organising retailers. Once we resisted, they attacked us indiscriminately and confined us for about three hours. They hurled bottles, bricks, and three crude bombs. We received no assist from the DU administration,” stated one other DU pupil.
Bangladesh has been gripped by quite a few protests and excessive lawlessness for the reason that democratically elected authorities of the Awami League, led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was overthrown throughout violent protests final 12 months.