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JN College closed sine die : Hostel rooms set on fire : Over 100 injured

Two students killed in night-long gunbattle

By Staff Correspondent
Two students were shot dead and over 100 injured in a night-long gunbattle Saturday between the activists of proBNP Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and Awami League-backed Bangladesh Chhatra League (S-A) at the Government Jagannath College in the city.
Authorities closed the college indefinitely and asked the resident students to vacate the hostels Sunday morning.
The dead were identified as Muniruzzaman alias Munir of the Political Science Department, belonging to JCD and Manab Kanta Dey alias Swapan, a 3rd year student of the Accounting Department, of BCL(S-A).
The injured persons also including at least 10 policemen including the Assistant Commissioner of Kotwali-Sutrapur Nurul Alam and Kotwali officer-jn-charge, Hamidul Huq. Constable Jalaluddin, one of the three, seriously injured policemen, was admitted to the PG
Hospital while constable Barua and habilder Suraj Miah were admitted to the Rajarbagh Police Hospital.
Of the wounded students, 11 were admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) and three to the Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital (SSMCH).
Our DMCH correspondent said, 50 others were given first aid at the DMCH. The students undergoing treatment at the DMCH are : Amlnul (BCL), Gopln (BCL), Kazi Nazrul Islam (BCL). Kamaluddin Arab (BCL), Kazi Sirajul Islam (BCL), GM Edrls All of Chhatra Samity, Farhad Chowdhury (BCL, N S). Abdullah Al-Hossain (BCL). Serajul Islam (BCL), Binoy Sarkar (JCD) and Jahangir (unidentified).
Of them, Gopln and Farhad received bullet injuries.
According to SSMCH correspondent, three were admitted to and 28 others given first aid at the SSMCH. The injured students were identified as
From Page 1 Col " Ashraful Alam, Johnson and Hossain, all belonging to BCUS-A). Ashraf later fled from the hospital. The condition of Johnson was critical as attending doctors stated. Johnson, with bullet injuries on head who operated upon.
After the seven-hour gun fight between the two rival student groups beginning 10.30 pm. police recovered four pipe-guns, one 'ram dao', 11 rounds of .303 rifle bullets, 18 rounds of short-gun bullets and. three crackers from the Shaheed Dr Milan Hall. None was arrested in this connection
During the armed clashes, both the sides freely used lethal weapons including firearms, bombs and hockey sticks. Several hundred shots were fired by the clashing students
A number of rooms of Dr Milon Hall belonging to JCD and BCL (S A) were ransacked and set on fire.
According to police and witnesses, the clash between the workers of JCD and BCUS A) ensued over distribution of admission forms in the evening. The dispute scuffles chase and counter-chase be tween the groups soon spread in and around the college compound.
Later both the warring groups rushed to the Dr Milon Hall and took positions in two separate buildings BCL(S-A)
activists took control of Block 'A' and those of JCD of Block B' of the hall.
BCL(S-A) armed men reportedly first resorted to firing at .10.30 pm and chased their rivals out of the hall. The BCL(S-A) armed group thus managed to take control of the whole hall area.
Soon after the JCD rein forced gunmen attacked the BCUS-A) insiders and entered the hall compound scaling the boundary walls, firing shots and blasting crackers Before getting into the hall, the JCD workers were learnt to have blown the electric transformer throwing the entire area Into total darkness.
From mid-night to dawn, the gunfight between,the two rival groups continued without intermission. Continued firing of shots created panic in the area plunged in darkness from Saturday mid-night to Sunday dawn, leaving two students killed and over 100 others, injured including some non-party residents of the hall.
Police said, they surrounded the hall area during the gunfight but could not enter into the compound due to darkness. They said they entered the hall compound at dawn and brought the situation under control by firing shots and teargas shells. Police also lathicharged the inmates injur Ing them but could not arrest any of the clashing students who managed to escape.
At around 6-15 am. police
asked the resident students to leave the hall within half an hour. When the hall was vacated. a group of the BCL(S-A) workers entered the hall and set fire to a number of rooms, belonging to JCD members, witnesses said. Earlier, several BCL rooms also were ransacked.
Of the victims. Swapan died on the spot at about 2 am while Munir was declared dead by DMCH doctors at 6 am.
The BCL workers brought out a procession with the body of Swapan In the afternoon and proceeded towards the National Press Chib when police intervened them at the Victoria Park crossing. Later the processionists turned towards the launch terminal at Sadarghat and sent the body to Nuria upazila of Shariatpur district. the village home of Swapan
Munir's body was also sent to his village home after autopsy at the DMCH.
Police were guarding the tension-ridden college area till Sunday night.
Meanwhile, supporters of BCUS A) protesting the killing of Swapan blocked the street adjoining Tejgaon Polytechnic Institute for an hour Sunday noon. The protesters also damaged at least four baby taxics and a private car.
Separate cases have been filed with Kotwali police by the rival student groups in this connection.