Students take to streets for 6th consecutive day
Dhaka: School and college students took to streets for the 6th consecutive day on Friday and staged demonstrations to press home their 21-point demand, including punishment of those responsible for Sunday’s road crash at Kurmitola in the city that left their two fellows dead.
Amid the ongoing student movement for safe road, enraged people set a bus on fire at Moghbazar Wireless gate area on Friday afternoon as it hit a motorbike, leaving a man dead, reports the UNB.
Some students and their guardians gathered in front of the Jatiya Press Club and formed a human chain around11:00am. Students were also seen staging demonstrations at Kakrail.
Students also took position near Mirpur Sony cinema hall in the morning and formed a human chain with placards.
School and college-goers were also seen regulating traffic on different roads, including Asad gate area, and examining the driving licences and papers of vehicles.
The students also regulated vehicles of different modes on certain roads and lanes in a disciplined way.
On Sundaylast, Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, students of the college section of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College, were killed as a ‘Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan’ bus ploughed through some students in front of Kurmitola General Hospital on Airport Road.
Students of colleges and schools burst into protest across the country after the death.