Dhaka College students go for car bashing after accident

Students of Dhaka College torch a multi-purpose vehicle bringing it inside their campus yesterday as the car was involved in a road mishap in which a student of the college was hurt. Photo: STAR
Dhaka College students yesterday went on the rampage and set fire to a microbus following a road accident that left one of their fellow students seriously injured.

At least 10 vehicles were vandalised during the angry protests.

Witnesses said the speeding microbus hit Saiful Islam, a first year student of Biology department, in front of the college while he was crossing the road at around 12:00noon.

The locals rushed him to nearby Central Hospital on Green Road and he was later admitted to Pongu Hospital in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.

Saiful's legs have been fractured but he was out of danger, hospital sources said.

Police seized the microbus and detained its driver Idris Miah, officer-in-charge (OC) of New Market Police Station Anisur Rahman told The Daily Star.

Enraged at the incident, several hundred students of the college started damaging vehicles on the Mirpur Road and set the microbus ablaze.

Police rushed to the spot and tried to stop them leading to incidents of chase and counter chase between the two sides.

At one stage, police forced the students back to the college campus.

Vehicular movement remained stopped for over an hour during the chaos creating a severe traffic jam on the Mirpur Road.

Over two hundred policemen were deployed in the college area to avert further untoward incident.

The college students demanded setting up of a speed-breaker on the road in front of the college to prevent more accidents in future.