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RU closed sine die as gunbattle rocks campus

From Our Correspondent
RAJSHAHI, July 26: Ra-jshahi University was dosed sine die Friday following nightlong fierce gunbattle between activists of JCD and Chhatra Oikya Parishad that left at last 75 students injured. 21 with bullets.
A total of 125 rooms were also ransacked and act ablaze during the clashes that spread to seven residential halls during which the activists traded at least 500 rounds of lire and cocktails.
Deafening sounds of blasts were also heard that rocked the university campus and pancked the people of surrounding areas.
The 21 persons with bullet injuries were taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. Seriously injured students were Mamun, Alauddin. Alt Ashraf Peer. Hashib, Kashem. Shaheen, Pias. Gont, Shanti, Uzzal and Ratan. At around 6 am. the Vice-Chancellor Prof Amanullah Ahmed called an emergency meeting of the Syndicate which closed the university sine die, asked students to vacate the halls by 12 noon and deferred subsidiary examinations. Students vacated the halls as directed.
Provosts of different halls told The Daily Star that police did not come to the aid of the authorities during the clash. Police came at 5-30 am and dispersed the clashing students by firing shots and teargas shells.
Tension mounted on the campus and clashes became almost certain when a move for peace and rapprochement between the leaders of BNP-backed Jatiyatabadl Chhatra Dal (JCD) and newly formed Chhatra Oikya Parishad. a forum of seven left-leaning stu-dent organisations and Chhatra League (S-X) fallcdearlter
The JCD activists Thursday tried to fortify their positions in the Madarbox Flail and Habibur Rahman Hal) while the Parishad activists at Latif . Shah Makhdum. Amir All, Sher-e-Bangla. and Suhrawardy Halls.
In the backdrop of last two days' fighting, attaining supremacy at the Suhrawardy Hall turned out io be the main contentious issue between the rival groups. In the evening, the JCD activists left the Suhrawardy Hall and the Oikya Parishad activists locked themselves inside and started preparation for fight. At about 10-30 pm the JCD activists came back with reinforcements. obviously to take control. After about 15 minutes' resistance from the Oikya Parishad activists from Inside, the JCD activists broke open the gate and gunfight started. After an hour-long fight, the Oikya Parishad activists fled away. About 100 shots were fired and 25 students Injured in the clash. The JCD then ransacked and set ablaze the rooms belonging to Oikya Parishad activists.
The JCD workers then targeted the Sher-e-Bangla Hall and after some hours entered the Hall by collapsing a boundary wall. At least 15 persons were Injured in the battle between the rival groups there.
At around 4 am. Oikya Parishad activists from Shah Mokhdum, Amir All and Latif halls gathered and stormed into the Shurawardy Hall. They set ablaze rooms belonging to JCD workers. JCD workers took shelter In Madarbox Hall and the two groups had another round of fierce gunfight. About 40 students were Injured in the clash there.
When police came around at 5-30 am, both Oikya Parishad and JCD activists dispersed.
Police remained deployed on the campus.
Later, JCD leader and Vice President of RUCSU, Rizvi Ahmed tn a statement Friday said the armed attacks were pre-planned. The Oikya Parishad at a press conference also accused the JCD for terrorism and demanded ouster of the criminals'.
Shlbir also held a rally Friday condemning the closure of the university.
Now police are patrolling the campus.
BSS adds : Meanwhile, a five-member committee headed by Prof A N Shamsul Huq was formed to enquire into the incidents on the campus. The committee ts to submit its report within 15 (fifteen) days.
125 hall rooms set ablaze : 75 injured