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Violent protest: Truck kills SMC student

By Staff Correspondent
In a tragic road accident in the city yesterday a female student of the Salimullah Medical College was killed by a speeding truck.
Rumana Parvin. 22. a first-year student of the SMC. was crushed to death when a killer truck struck the rickshaw she was riding near the main gate of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital at around 10:15 am.
News of her death prompted Immediate protests on the streets by angry medical college students. They also caHed for a token strike to be observed in all the 14 mtdical colleges throughout the country today.
Witnesses said the speeding truck hit the rickshaw from behind and when the victim fell on the road the reckless driver drove over her body. She died on the spot.
Daughter of Md Delwar Hossain, an officer on special duty with the Establishment Ministry. Parvin had gone to the Dhaka Medical College campus
earlier in the morning to meet a friend and was on her wav to the SMC
A brilliant student having secured First Division marks in her SSC and HSC exams. Parvin began her first-year classes at the medical college only in August last.
A pall of gloom and grief descended on the family residence at Naya Paltan yesterday. Some shocked family members were speechless. Others were wailing and sobbing uncontrollably. Parvin was the third among four sisters and a brother.
Her namaz-e-Janaza was held at the Naya Paltan mosque after post-mortem examinations at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. She was later burled at the Azimpur graveyard
Police seized the killer truck from near the Chandkharpool area but was unable to arrest the driver
However, some four hours later the traffic police arrested the truck driver Md Shahjahan Mlah. 35. from the Gabtali area A case was lodged with the Ramna police.
Soon after the accident angry SMC students brought out a procession, which was later Joined by the DMC and the Dental College Students. They marched towards the National Press Club.
The agitating students went on a rampage, stoning and smashing a number of trucks and buses along the way. They also beat up a truck driver and damaged two trucks and a bus near the Foreign Office at around noon.
The medical students later held a rally in front of the Press Club and declared a token strike today in all the medical colleges of the country.
Speakers at the rally also demanded the immediate arrest and punishment of the truck driver and urged the authorities to ban the entry of trucks in the city during the daytime.
A mourning meeting is also scheduled for 11 this morning at the SMC campus.
Different organisations condemned the death of the SMC student. They include the SMC Teachers' Association. San-dhani. the SMC Reporters' Association and the Bangladesh Chhatra League.