Students take to streets for 4th day

Staff Correspondent: Students have taken to the streets for the fourth day in a row, chanting slogans and demanding justice for the deaths of two of their fellows.

Hundreds of students blocked different roads in Dhaka including Airport Road, Science Lab intersection, Mirpur 10, Airport Road and Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue.

Vehicle movement from Farmgate to Karwan Bazar also remained suspenVehicle movement from Farmgate to Karwan Bazar also remained suspended for around 20 minutes as hundreds of students blocked Dhaka’s Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue demanding safe road.

First, the protesting students took position on the busy VIP road near the police box in Farmgate around 10:00am.

Later, they went on marching towards Karwan Bazar chanting "We want justice".
Hundreds of students blocked both sides of the Airport Road at 12:00 noon. Around two vehicles were also vandalised by the protesting students. Meanwhile, students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College around 11:00am tried to block Airport Road demanding safe road and justice for their two peers killed in Sunday's road crash.

But the law enforcers foiled their attempt and ushered them into the buses crossing the area. 

 

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