TDS Desk:

Students from Kabi Nazrul College and Suhrawardy Colleges have vandalised Dr Mahbubur Rahman Molla College in Demra over Monday’s clashes among students from 35 colleges near National Medical College Hospital centering a student’s death in ‘wrong treatment’ at the hospital.

Students started gathering near Dr Mahbubur Rahman Molla College in the morning and carried out vandalism around 12 noon.

On November 16, Abhijit Halder, an HSC student of Demra’s Dr Mahbubur Rahman Molla College, was admitted to the medicine department of the hospital with dengue. He died on November 18.

After that students vandalised the hospital alleging negligence in treatment at the hospital on Sunday.

They alleged that students from Kabi Nazrul and Suhrawardy Colleges supported by National Medical College attacked them.

Later, students from 35 colleges clashed with the students of Kabi Nazrul and Suhrawardy Colleges and vandlised property of the two colleges on Sunday, leaving at least 20 people injured.

The 35 colleges included Dr. Mahbubur Rahman Molla College, Dhaka College, Dhaka Ideal College, City College, Giyasuddin College, Government Tolaram College, Imperial College, Borhanuddin College, Science College, Dhaniya College, Lalbagh Government College, Udayan College, Adamjee, Notre Dame, Rajarbagh College, Nur Mohammad, Munshi Abdur Rouf College, Siddheswari College, Green Line Polytechnic, Dhaka Polytechnic, Mahbubur Rahman Institute of Science and Technology, and others from the capital.

However, Kabi Nazrul College’s unit general secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal Kawser Hossain denied any involvement in the incident. “We are students, and we support students. We did not attack anyone,” he said.

Regarding the vandalism, Suhrawardy College Islamic Studies department teacher Tariqul Islam said, “I sent them back first, but they returned with a group. They stole many computers and destroyed them, even took rifles from the NCC.

They vandalised all 17 departments and even damaged four motorcycles owned by a teacher.”

Suhrawardy College Vice-Principal Dr Farida Yasmin said, “We were assured by the principal that nothing would happen, but the attack occurred. The entire college was attacked, and even my room was ransacked.”