Islami Chattra Shibir, a student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, on Monday called in a daylong hartal for Wednesday in Chittagong to protest the killing of one of the party’s leaders in a Chittagong University clash that occurred on Sunday.
S Jamil, publicity secretary of Shibir’s Chittagong district north unit, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Mamun Hossain, the general secretary of the party’s Shah Amanat Hall unit, and a fourth-year student of Soil Science, was killed and 25 others were injured during an altercation between Bangladesh Chhatra League and Shibir men at Chittagong University on Sunday afternoon.
Police and witnesses said the clash erupted sometime around 1:45pm when Shibir men fired several gunshots from Amanat Hall when a BCL procession was seen crossing the area.