Around 100 injured in clash between students in Jatrabari

Dhaka’s Jatrabari turned into a battlefield today as students of Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College, Kabi Nazrul Government College, and Dr Mahbubur Rahman Mollah College engaged in a violent clash.
Around 100 people were injured in the hours-long violence, according to hospital sources.
The injured took treatment at nearby hospitals, including 40 at Dhaka National Medical College Hospital, 20 at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, 12 at Royal Max Hospital, Konapara, 10 at Famous Hospital, and 7 each at Dhaka Islamia General Hospital and Medihope General Hospital.
In a statement, Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner of Media and Public Relations Muhammad Talebur Rahman said that almost 25 people were injured, and refuted claims on social media that 2 people had died in the clash. The DMP requested all to refrain from spreading this sort of misinformation. 
Earlier around midday, several hundred students from Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College and Kabi Nazrul Government College launched an attack on the students of Dr Mahbubur Rahman Mollah College.
They vandalised the college building and looted valuables from the institution.
This was followed by repeated rounds of chase and counter chase between the two sides, triggering a clash.
After Suhrawardy College and Kabi Nazrul College students left the spot around 1:20pm, members of army and police went to the scene at about 2:00pm, reports our correspondent from the spot.
Saiful Islam, assistant commissioner of Wari Zone, said, “Several people were injured during the clash. We are trying to bring the situation under control.”
Ashraf Sameer, managing director of Mollah College, told The Daily Star: “Thousands of so-called students attacked our students and teachers when classes were going on. More than 100 teachers and students were injured in the attack and are receiving treatment at various hospitals nearby.”
“We strongly condemn the attack and demand a proper investigation. We demand proper justice for those who carried out the attack identifying them as students.
Saleh Uddin, deputy commissioner of the Wari division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), said that those responsible for the recent attack will be apprehended within 24 hours.
Speaking to the press at the spot of the clash, he said, “The attackers will be brought under justice within 24 hours. A case will be filed following the incident.”
Six platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were deployed to the Jatrabari area to prevent further escalations.
The attack came a day after several thousand students from more than a dozen colleges, including Mollah College, attacked Kabi Nazrul and Suhrawardy College in Old Dhaka.
Today, the students of Kabi Nazrul and Suhrawardy College gathered at their respective campuses with sticks and iron rods in their hands and marched towards Mollah College for a retaliatory attack.
During the clash, students beat up rivals and hurled brick chunks at each other.
Additional police members rushed to the scene to bring the situation under control.
Earlier on November 18, Mollah College student Avijit died in Dhaka National Medical College Hospital, due to alleged negligence. Following Avijit’s death, students demonstrated against the hospital authorities in the hospital premises.
As the protests were ongoing, some students from Suhrawardy and Kabi Nazrul colleges attacked the demonstrators from Mollah College on November 21.
Following the attack, several thousand students, including from Mollah College, Dhaka College, City College and Notre Dame College, yesterday gathered in front of the hospital again, protesting the death of Avijit and the subsequent attack on Mollah College students.
The gathering stretched to Kabi Nazrul College. At one stage, the protesting students tried to break into the college but failed to do so.
The protesters then attacked Suhrawardy College after a small group of students of the college tried to chase the demonstrators away from outside Kabi Nazrul College around 1:00pm.
Panic spread inside Suhrawardy College as honours first-year exams for the seven colleges affiliated with Dhaka University were ongoing there.
The protesters yesterday vandalised three motorcycles, a car, a microbus, and an ambulance parked on the Suhrwarady College campus.