Students from different schools and colleges staged demonstration in Dhaka on Monday protesting Sunday's accident on Airport Road that left two college students dead.
Witnesses said several hundred students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College took to the streets around 10:30 am on Monday and put up barricades, disrupting traffic on the busy road.
The students also chanted slogans saying 'We want justice', reports UNB.
The agitated students put up a barricade on rail tracks near Dhaka Cantonment forcing the authorities to halt train communications between Dhaka and other parts of the country for about two hours.
Stationmaster of Cantonment Railway Station Mozammel Hossain said the student took position on the rail track near Sheora level-crossing around 1:30 pm.
Later the authorities concerned suspended the train services from Kamalapur Railway Station.
However, the train communications resumed around 3:20 pm, said officer-in-charge of Kamalapur Railway Station Yasin Faruk.
Earlier in the day, the students staged demonstrations in different parts of the city to protest the death of their two fellows, causing widespread traffic chaos.
Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College, were killed as a bus ploughed through some students in front of Kurmitola General Hospital on Airport Road on Sunday.
Besides, students of different schools and colleges, including BAF Shaheen College, Kurmitola, Government Science College, Nawab Habibullah Model School & College, Bangabandhu College and Banani Bidya Niketan School and College joined the road blockade programme expressing solidarity with the demand.
Earlier, students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College formed a human chain in front of their college around 10 am demanding justice.
On information, police went to the spot and removed them from the college premises.
Later, they staged a sit-in near Radisson Hotel around 10:15 am, disrupting traffic.
As police obstructed them from staging demonstrations near the hotel, they brought out a rally from there protesting the death of their two fellows and put up a barricade on the Airport Road.
Besides, students of different colleges, including City College, blocked roads adjacent to Science Laboratory area in the morning, protesting the death of the two students, halting vehicular movement on the busy road.
On information, police rushed in and tried to disperse them, triggering a chase-and-counter-chase between the students and the police.
However, the traffic on the road returned to normalcy around 12:30 pm following police intervention.
