The students of Uttar Kattali Mostafa Hakim Degree College and locals put up a barricade on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in City Gate area of the district following the death of their two fellow students in a road accident yesterday.
Road communications on the highway came to a halt in the area following the violent protest of the agitated students.
The blockaders also vandalised a total 10 vehicles including goods-laden trucks, buses and minibuses in the area while the blockade stared around 11am and ended 1am, police and local sources said.
Two BBA students of the college-Md Wahidul Islam Sujon, 21, and Md Delwar Hossain Shamim, 21, hailing from Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong were run over by a truck near the college around 10:15am, police said.
Eyewitness said a wheat-laden truck of Chittagong City Corporation’s former Mayor M Manjur Alam rammed down four students while they were going to college after getting down from a double-decker, leaving Sujon dead on the spot and three others injured critically.
Later, the injured were rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital where on-duty doctor declared Shamim dead, said Nayek Jahangir Alam of CMCH police outpost.
The truck driver and his helper fled away leaving the truck while the agitated blockaders vandalised it and some locals robbed the sacks of wheat during the vandalism, eyewitnesses said.
On information, police rushed to the spot and took the truck into their custody, said Chittagong Metropolitan Police Additional Deputy Commissioner (west) Arefin Jewel.
He said the agitated students of the college and the locals removed the blockade as the concerned authorities assured them to take necessary steps over the incident.
Due to the blockade, several kilometres long tailbacks were seen on the both sides of the highway and the commuters suffered immensely while different patients carrying ambulances and vehicles were the worst sufferers.
The college authorities, expressing mourn over the accident, announced the college for three-day closure while the each family of the deceased would get Tk1,00,000 and the medical treatment costs of the injured would also be provided by the college authorities, said the ADC.
