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20 Ruet students hurt in JCD attack on BCL

RU Correspondent
Armed cadres of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) attacked Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists in three dormitories of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) yesterday leaving 20 students injured.
The JCD men torched 16 rooms and vandalised 55 others while BCL men ransacked a provost's office protesting the attack and blaming Ruet authorities for keeping mum duringthe two-hour rampage.
Among the injured, 12 students were admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital and six others were stated to be in critical condition in that hospitaL
The six are Al-Amin, Hasib, Nazmul, Shishir, Russell, and Sabbir.
The others injured are: Milton, Rakib, Tapos, Sajib, Rony, Rubel, Tuhin, Shamim, Opi, Reza, Amit, Minarul and Sayed.
The attack was launched around midnightWednesday when JCD activists entered rooms of BCL leaders at Shaheed Selim, Shaheed Hamid and Ziaur Rahman dormitories and beat them up. Sources said the attack was in retaliation for a BCL attack on JCD activists Tuesday.
On Tuesday night, BCL activists allegedly led by Asif and Biplob beat up JCD activists Shohag. Sujan, Chhotan and Bappi at Shaheed Selim Hall's TV room following a scuffle over watching television.
Around 50 JCD activists and non-students came out of Ziaur Rahman Hall with machetes, sticks and crackers in their hands and swooped on the BCL men in their rooms at Shaheed Selim HalL
The attackers gathered students' clothes from 12 rooms and set those on fire in the corridor and torched the beds in the rooms. Furniture, computers, fans, books and other belongings in around 50 rooms were damaged.
The JCD men then went to Hamid Hall and beat up four Chhatra League men and set fire to their rooms. JCD cadres on their way to Selim Hall beat up BCL activist Sajib at Ziaur Rahman Hall and ransacked his room.
Angry BCL men then vandalised the provost's office at Shaheed Selim Hall.
Students at Selim Hall complained that they repeatedly called the hall provost and Students' Welfare Adviser Prof Sayed Abdul Mofiz during the attack but he did not respond. The provost reached the spot with police nearly one and a half hours later.
Police detained 13 BCL activists at Selim Hall after the provost asked police to bring the situation under control, Al-Amin, an injured BCLactivist said.
The 13 students are Nabil Hasan, Rony, Tuhin, Junayed, Saidur Rahman Sayed. Reza, Rubel, Arifur Rahman, Shamim, Munna, Chhotan, Asraf Hossain and Mehedi Hasan, police said.
Students were seen leaving halls yesterday morning fearing further violence. Additional riot police were deployed on thecampus.
Ruet Chhatra League condemned the incident at a press conference at the Rajshahi City Awami League office.
In their six-point demand, they demanded the unconditional release of arrested students, ensuring security to students on campus and the resignation of Provost Mofiz.
Meanwhile, Public Relations Office of Ruet in a press release termed the violence a small incident and claimed that the situation in Ruet is now peaceful.