M Humayun Kabir: Police fired teargas shells at the protesting students at Jhigatola intersection in the city while they were trying to take position there demanding safe roads.
At least four protesters were injured when the ruling party’s student front Bangladesh Chhatra league members attacked them in Dhanmondi 1 area, reports The Daily Star.
A large number of students with a big procession moved to Rifles Square in Jhigatola from Science Lab at 12:55pm and started a sit-in-programme there.
At one stage, police lobbed about 20-25 tear gas canisters in the area to disperse the protesters.
Police later fired at least eight rounds of tear shells to disperse the students who returned to Science Lab from Jhigatola.
Around 1:50pm, a group of Bangladesh Chhatra League of Dhaka College unit, wearing helmet, appeared the scene and chased the students with stick, leaving four injured. They also chased journalists to disperse from the spot.
Banani: Hundreds of students of different universities including South East, Prime Asia and Northern universities have blocked the Banani intersection, halting traffic on the busy road.
Mirpur-10: Police barred a procession of the protesters as they did not allow any crowds to gather at the intersection or any other nearby places.
Around 200 students gathered at Mirpur 2 and moved in a procession towards Mirpur 10 around 12:15pm chanting slogans, “we want justice”.
But after barred by the law enforcers, they returned from where they started.
Amid protest, police are going to start “traffic week” across the country from yesterday.
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