15 injured as students of Dhaka, City colleges clash

Students of Dhaka College and City College clashed for about two hours in the Science Lab and its neighbourhood areas yesterday afternoon, causing injuries to at least 15 people.
Traffic flow in and out of the busy intersection came to a halt as the clash broke out around 2:00pm, causing immense suffering to the commuters.
Eleven of the injured took treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Inspector Md Farouk, in-charge of DMCH police outpost. All 11 were students of Dhaka College.
Witnesses said both groups wielded sticks and iron rods, chased each other, and hurled brick chips, resulting in the casualties.
According to the injured students from Dhaka College, they were celebrating its 184th founding anniversary yesterday.
After the programme, students started leaving the campus on buses around 2:30pm. When three buses reached the Science Laboratory intersection, City College students stopped them and attacked the Dhaka College students.
“Without any provocation, students of City College first attacked buses of Dhaka College and following the incident then a clash broke out after spreading the news on the campus, ” said Sajib Uddin, a student of Dhaka College.
The Dhaka College students also vandalised the City College building by throwing brick chunks.
Members of the police and army rushed there to bring the situation under control.
Police were seen firing several rounds of tear shells and sound grenades towards both sides of the clash.
Tarikul Islam, assistant commissioner of Dhanmondi Zone, told The Daily Star around 4:00pm that they came to know that the clash ensued over vandalising a bus of Dhaka College.