A teachers’ bus of Chittagong University (CU) was vandalised by miscreants in the city’s AK Khan Area yesterday, the fifth consecutive day of CU students’ strike demanding reopening of closed residence halls.
Meanwhile, several crude bombs were blasted at the Rail Station area when the campus bound shuttle train was ready to make its first trip of the day.
Sub Inspector Arab Ali of Government Railway Police (GRP) of Sholoshohar Rail Station Police Outpost said, at least five crude bombs were set off at the eastern corner of the station at around 7:40am.
The blast created panic among the general students and made the train delayed by 25 minutes, added Md Shahabuddin, station master of Sholoshahar railway station.
Earlier in the day, miscreants vandalised the teachers’ bus at Ispahani Rail Crossing area under Pahartali police station at around 7:30am.
Rabiul Islam, director of CU transport said, miscreants put up a barricade at the area and began pelting stones when the bus was going to pick up teachers.
The miscreants behind the bomb blast and the vandalism could not be identified, said the CU Proctor Siraj-ud-Dowla adding that the authority had been trying to resolve the issue.
However, classes and examinations of different departments of the university are going on as usual despite the strike, confirmed the Proctor.
A section of students who used to reside at the Shah Amanat and the Suhrawardy residence halls enforced the indefinite strike on Sunday under the banner of “General Student of CU” demanding reopening of the halls.
Shah Amanat hall was closed down on January 12 after a bloody clash took place between the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) activists while Suhrawardy was locked after a gun fight between the same men on August 24. CU authority and BCL leaders of CU unit claimed that Shibir men in guise of general students were behind the strike.