A group of students, demanding safe roads, took to the streets in Dhaka on Friday following the death of a Rajshahi University student in a road accident on Tuesday.
Students held protests at the Rampura Bridge area when they painted slogans on the road and observed a sit-in demonstration.
The protesting students also carried placards calling on the authorities to meet their demands. Their demands include a concession on public transport fares, measures against irregularities and corruption on the streets.
The students, however, did not disrupt traffic on the road.
On Tuesday, Mahmud Habib Himel, a final year student of the Fine Arts Faculty and general secretary of the Rajshahi University Drama Association, was killed as a truck carrying construction materials hit his bike in front of Shaheed Habibur Rahman Hall.
Himel died on the spot. Raihan Rimel, another student in the same year, was injured in the incident.
Hundreds of agitated students gathered at the scene of the accident and set fire to five trucks involved in the construction work. They also vandalized the building construction site, setting fire to two rooms.
Earlier in November, students launched a demonstration in Dhaka to demand a half-price discount on buses after the government hiked bus fares by 27 percent under pressure from transport owners over an increase in fuel prices.
The movement intensified on November 24 when a Notre Dame College student was killed in a road accident involving a city corporation vehicle.