Rajshahi University students have held an overnight protest after a fellow student died after being hit by a truck in front of a residential hall.
The protesting students set fire to five trucks and blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi Highway. They then took up positions outside the vice-chancellor’s residence, reports bdnews24.com.
In the face of the students’ demands, Vice-Chancellor Golam Shabbir Sattar made a verbal promise to withdraw the proctorial body.
“The vice chancellor has made a verbal promise to withdraw the proctorial body,” said Prof Pradeep Kumar Panday, the university’s administrator of public relations, on Wednesday. “The students have more demands and they will be discussed today. The official matters will be finalised at some point today.”
A truck carrying stones for a building under construction at Shaheed Habibur Rahman Hall struck a motorcycle carrying three students around 8:30 pm 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 on the spot.