Students block city roads, bus drivers held
Rapid Action Battalion on Monday arrested two bus drivers and their assistants as students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College and other institutions took to the streets protesting at the death of two college students in a road accident at Kurmitola on Sunday.
RAB 1 sources said they arrested two bus drivers and two assistants of three buses from different parts of the city.
College students Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib were killed as a bus of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan ploughed through some students in front of Kurmitola General Hospital on Airport Road in the capital on Sunday.
Meanwhile, traffic on Airport Road and Mirpur Road came to a halt on Monday morning as students of different schools and colleges put blockade on the roads protesting the death of two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College in a road accident on Sunday.
Witnesses said several hundred students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College took to the streets around 10:30am and put up barricade on the road, disrupting traffic movement on the busy road.
The enraged students also chanted slogans saying 'we want justice' on the road, reports United News of Bangladesh .
Besides, the students of different schools and colleges including BAF Shaheen College, Kurmitola, Government Science College, Nawab Habibullah Model School & College, Bangabandhu College and Banani Bidya Niketan School and College joined the road blockade programme expressing solidarity with their demand.
Earlier, the students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College formed a human chain in front of their college around 10:00am demanding justice.
On information, police went to the spot and removed them from the college premises.
Later, they staged sit-in near Radisson Hotel around 10:15 am, disrupting traffic movement.
As police obstructed them from staging demonstrations near the hotel they brought out a rally from there protesting the death of their two fellows and put up barricade on the Airport road.
On behalf of the agitating students, Saiful Islam Apon of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin College, placed a nine-point demand including highest punishment for the bus drivers responsible for killing their two fellows, unconditional apology by the shipping minister for his Sunday comments, establishing speed breakers in front of the schools and colleges, taking all the responsibilities of the deceased and injured ones by the government, taking the students in buses if they signal to any bus and carrying them with half of bus fare, not driving any vehicle by any unlicensed driver at any place of the country and to ban carrying passengers more than its capacity.
Apon while addressing with the help of a megaphone at around 12:25pm demanded to meet their demand of justices and seeking minister’s apology immediately and to meet other demands within a week.
A number of agitating students said that a representative team of students had begun a meeting with the law enforcement agencies and the college authorities at the college after the students placed their demands.
At Science Laboratory crossing, students of Dhaka College, Dhaka City College and Ideal College put blockade on Mirpur Road extending their solidarity with the students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
