Clashes at Kuet over banning student politics; BGB deployed

BGB deployed in the premises of Khulna University of Science and Technology over clash that broke out on Tuesday over banning student politics._11zon

Clashes broke out between two groups of students over the demand of banning student politics on Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) campus on Tuesday.

Public Relations Officer of Border Guard of Bangladesh Md Shariful Islam said two platoons of BGB members were deployed amid tension on the campus.

Witnesses said some general students marched on the campus with slogans in favour of banning student politics on the campus on Tuesday afternoon.

Later, another group of students, said to be members of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), also brought out a counter-procession from the Central Mosque area, sparking tension on the campus.

A group of outsiders allegedly joined the JCD members and locked into a clash with the general students, leaving several injured.   

Witness said that four ambulances entered the campus and took the injured to several hospitals.

The outsiders again beat up a student at the pocket gate of the university at 2 pm and left him on the campus.

Enraged by it, the general students vandalised a few houses in front of the pocket gate of the campus.  

Members from police, Army and Navy rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control, said Khanjahan police station’s Officer-in-Charge Md Kabir Hossain.

Additional police personnel were deployed on the campus to ward off any unwanted incident, said the OC.

Though UNB could not verify the number of the injured people, police and witnesses said the number would be over 50. - UNB