Rail communications of Dhaka with Sylhet and Chittagong has resumed after around 8 hours.
Mahibur Rahman, station master of Brahmanbaria Railway Station, told the Dhaka Tribune that one railway line out two was resumed at 6:40pm on Tuesday.
“It will take two to three days to use another line for rail communication.”
The rail service was halted on Dhaka-Sylhet-Chittagong route at around 11am as Madrasa students carried out vandalism in Brahmanbaria Railway Station and removed fishplates from railway tracks.
Madrasa students went on rampage after a fellow student, who received injuries in a clash over a trifling matter in the town on Monday, has died in the morning.
Following the death, madrasa students took positions at different points of the district town in the morning, blocking roads and protesting the death of their fellow student.
The agitating students also called a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Wednesday.
BGB Battalion 12 commander Lieutenant Colonel Nazrul Islam said: “Four platoons of BGB have been deployed in the town to prevent a repeat of Monday's incident.”
Sadar police station Officer-in-Charge Akul Chondra Bishwas said the police were also on alert.
Madrasa students also carried out vandalism in Brahmanbaria Railway Station and removed fishplates from railway tracks, halting the train communication on Dhaka-Sylhet-Chittagong route.
In the afternoon, they vandalised local MP Obaidul Moktadir Chowdhury's office, Proshika office, house of former Chhatra League leader Mahmudul Haque Bhuiyan and a branch of Bank Asia.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Taposh Ranjan Ghosh and of Brahmanbaria Sadar Police Station OC Akul Chandra Biswas have been withdrawn following Monday’s clash, said acting Brahmanbaria Superintendent of Police MA Masud.
A three-member probe body led by Mahbubur Rahman, addition DIG of Police in Chittagong, has been formed to look into the matter, he added.
Following Monday’ incident, a tense situation has been prevailing in the municipality area.
At least 20 people, including Masudur Rahman, were injured in a triangular clash between local madrasa students, businessmen and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League over a trifling matter at Zila Parishad Market in TT Road area on Monday evening.
Witnesses said the clash ensued between local madrasa students and businessmen following an altercation over buying a mobile phone set and later BCL activists took part in the clash and chased the students.
