M Humayun Kabir: At least 40 people, mostly students of North South University (NSU), Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB) and other nearby universities, were injured in clashes with police and attackers at Bashundhara Residential Area in the city yesterday.
The injured were rushed to Apollo Hospital, according to a doctor at the hospital’s emergency department. Some passers-by and street children were also among the injured, reports The Daily Star.
Bashundhara Residential Area turned into battle ground after miscreants swooped on students of North South University (NSU) with sticks and bamboo canes when they were gathering at the back side of the university premises.
The students gathered there to protest against the attack on East West University (EWU) students, said a faculty member of NSU.
“Around 2pm, the students started gathering at the back of the NSU premises after they came to know the incident at EWU,” the faculty member said.
Around 30 minutes later, a gang of youths wielding sticks and bamboo canes swooped on the students, the faculty also said.
Several students were seen bleeding and rushing back inside the campus after being injured in the clashes.
Meanwhile, sounds of shouts and noises were heard coming from the direction where the students gathered.
After a while, police started throwing over a hundred tear gas shells around 3:30pm targeting the thousands of protesting students from North South University (NSU), Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB) and other nearby universities who gathered in the area.
Police were also lobbing tear gas shells indiscriminately towards the students who dispersed into various lanes and alleys in the area.
Students were also seen blocking the roads inside Bashundhara R/A by torching tires and taking position with sticks in hand.
The clashes briefly came to a halt around 4:10pm. Armoured cars were stationed in front of the Bashundhara R/A gate and nobody could enter the area. Besides, an armoured car was also seen entering inside the area around 3:40pm.
Police and stick-wielding youths ganged up on East West University students at Rampura today, lobbing tear gas and charging batons at them.
Police and stick-wielding youths ganged up on East West University students at Rampura yesterday, lobbing tear gas and charging batons at them.
About 200 policemen had forced the students inside Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar.
A teacher of East West University sought anonymity to tell The Daily Star, several students have been injured in the “attack carried out by police and ruling party men”.
Police lobbed tear shells, used water cannons and charged batons to disperse a procession brought out by students at Dhaka University campus this afternoon demanding safe roads and protesting the ongoing attacks on students.
Around 300 students under the banner of “Nipiron Birodhi Shikkharthi (Students Against Repression)” brought out a peaceful procession from TSC towards Shahbagh intersection around 3:30pm
Law enforcers along with the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) dispersed protesting students when they tried to gather in front of Chittagong Press Club today for forming a human chain.
The incident took place when hundreds of students gathered in the area around 11:00am to form the human chain protesting the recent attacks on protesting students in Dhaka.
Before they could form the human chain, both police and BCL men reached the spot and dispersed them.

At least nine students were allegedly picked up by Chittagong Kotwali Police for interrogation.