Activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League and Islam Chhatra Shibir rampaged through the campus of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology on Wednesday evening. At least 25 activists of both the organisations became injured.
Activists of the ruling Awami League-backed Chhatra League also ransacked several rooms of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami-backed Shibir activists at the Shah Paran Hall and vandalised furniture and valuables, campus sources said.
Shibir activists fired gunshots and exploded crude bombs to force Chhatra League activists, who attacked the rooms of Shibir activists, out of the hall about 7:00pm, the sources said.
Policemen reached the campus and fired teargas shells to contain violence that broke out between the activists of the organisations.
Chhatra League activists then gathered in front of the university medical centre and tried to attack the hall again while Shibir activists continued firing gunshots and exploding bombs in front of the Shah Paran Hall till 8:00pm, the sources said.
Rival activists were shouting slogans against each other till 8:00pm, the sources said.
The injured university unit Shibir president Rumi was admitted to a private clinic and the injured Chhatra League activist Manjur was sent to Ragib-Rabeya Medical College Hospital and another injured Chhatra League activist to Osmani Medical College Hospital immediately after the incident.
Witnesses said that Chhatra League activists had attacked the rooms of Shibir activists about 6:30pm after a procession brought out on the campus celebrating the arrest of former Jamaat-e Islami amir Ghulam Azam.
Chhatra League activists at that time forced the Shibir men out of their rooms and carried out vandalism.
A large number of Shibir activists, with firearms and sharp weapons, then reached the campus and drove Chhatra League activists out of the hall about 6:45pm, the sources said.
The university unit Chhatra League convener told New Age about 8:00pm that al least 15 of his fellows in the organisation were wounded by the Chhatra League.
The proctor, Himadri Shekhar Roy, told New Age about 7:30pm that they were preparing to hold an emergency meeting to assess the situation and make decisions.
‘Policemen have been deployed on the campus to control the situation and fend off further trouble,’ the proctor added.
The hall provost, Mustabur Rahman, declined comments but said that he was on the campus and the chaos was going on.
Residents of the Shah Paran Hall, who were outside when the violence broke out, could not return, students said.
Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1
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