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Violence after road accidents

Woman killed, student hurt, 2 buses torched

Staff Correspondent
A woman was killed and a university student was injured in two road accidents, sparking violent protests in the capital's Dhanmondi and Moghbazar areas yesterday.
The protests left traffic in a mess for hours, causing sufferings to commuters.
The dead is Morjina Begum, 45, a cleaner at Grand Plaza shopping mall in Moghbazar, and the injured is Shawkatul Alam Shimul, 19, a student of Stamford University in Dhanmondi.
At least 15 people were injured when agitated students of the university went on a rampage protesting the accident. They vandalised around 20 vehicles on Satmasjid Road.
They fought pitched battles with the law enforcers, bringing traffic on the road to a halt for about three hours from 10:00am.
Incensed at the accident in Moghbazar, a mob torched two buses and damaged several others. It also put up barricades on Shahid Sangbadik Selina Parveen Sarak, halting traffic for over an hour from 3:20pm.
Witnesses said a bus bound for Dhupkhola hit and injured LLB first semester student Shimul when he was about to alight from a rickshaw in front of his campus near Anam Rangs Plaza around 10:00am.
As a rumour spread about Shimul's death, students from three nearby campuses of Stanford University went on a rampage on the road.
When the law enforcers tried to resist them, the protestors pelted police with brickbats. The law enforcers retaliated by lobbing a few teargas canisters.
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Contacted, Arifur Islam, assistant proctor of the university, said Shimul had been admitted to Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital and was out of danger.
In the other accident, Morjina was crushed under the wheels of a Gazipur-bound bus of Provati-Banasree Paribahan while she was crossing the road in front of the Moghbazar Telephone Exchange around 3:15pm.
"A speeding bus coming from Mouchak intersection knocked her down first and within moments another bus ran her over,” said witness Tofail Miah, a tea stall owner in the area.
When the bus tried to speed away, locals caught and set it on fire, said Altab Hossain, sub-inspector of Ramna Police Station.
The mob torched another bus of the same company as it was coming from the same direction at the same time, he added.
The drivers and helpers of both the buses managed to escape.
Firefighters from different fire brigade stations rushed to the scene and doused the flames.