Student protests spill across Dhaka, neighbourhood
Angry student protesters blocked Dhaka city’s major intersections for the fourth day Wednesday, disrupting traffic movement in and around the capital city.
Students from different schools and colleges took to the streets demanding punishment of the driver responsible for Sunday's road crash that killed two college students and resignation of shipping minister Shahjahan Khan for his comments on the accident.
The protesters blocked Farmgate, Science Laboratory, New Market, Green Road-Panthapath, Banasree, Rampura, Matuail, Jatrabari, Babu Bazar Bridge, Bhatara, Khilkhet, Kabi Nazrul Government College road, Tongi, House Building road in Uttara, and Mirpur road in the morning.
According to UNB, , students from around 20 colleges, including Sheikh Borhanuddin College, Dhaka College, Ideal College, and Commerce College, took position at Shahbagh intersection at noon demanding capital punishment of the driver and helpers of the killer bus and resignation of the shipping minister.
Students of Dhaka University and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) joined the protests and expressed their solidarity with their demands.
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