At least 50 female students were injured as criminals yesterday attacked a human chain programme that was organised demanding arrest and punishment of the perpetrators who tease the female students of a school in the district.
Sources said a group of miscreants at Pukurpar area under Bahubal upazila teased the students of Faizabad High School while they went to school.
The managing committee of the school held arbitration several times over the issue. But the problem could not be solved.
Around 10am, locals, students and teachers organised the programme at the school premises demanding exemplary punishment of the culprits. At one stage, the miscreants attacked the female students, leaving 50 of them injured who were participating the programme. They also attacked the school building and vandalised furniture.
On information, police went to the spot and brought out the situation under control.
Mosarraf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Bahubal model police station, said the police fired 40 bullets to bring the situation under control.
The miscreants confined the teachers, managing committee members, students in a room. The police rescued them around 1pm, the OC said.
“We are trying to arrest the culprits who are involved with the incident,” he also said.
