[Bangla Daily Star] At least 25 students were maimed, three of them bullet-hit, in a fierce clash between Islami Chhatra Shibir... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
and Bangladesh Chhatra League
... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ...
activists at Rajshahi University (RU) yesterday.
Police placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
15 activists of Shibir after conducting raids in different dormitories soon after the incident.
The clash ensued around 11:30am when Shibir activists threw brickbats at a BCL procession near Shahidullah Arts building, witnesses said.
Following the incident, BCL men chased the Shibir activists, and a running battle between the members of two groups started.
Both the groups used sticks, iron rods and sharp weapons during the chase and counter chase.
The feuding groups also traded nearly 50 gunshots inside the campus and at the RU's main gate that left a BCL man and two Shibir activists injured.
Some of the activists of the pro-Jamaat student organization, who took shelter inside the Central Library after being chased, were mercilessly beaten up by the BCL men.
The BCL men also drove Shibir men out of the campus and put up barricades on the Rajshahi-Dhaka highway for around 30 minutes.
Around 12:30pm, BCL men entered the campus and damaged two university buses in front of the administrative building.
Later, the activists of the pro-AL student body ransacked the residence of the vice-chancellor for allegedly allowing the Shibir activists to establish their dominance in the campus.