Khulna, Feb 18 (V7N) – Tensions have arisen at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) over the demand to stop student politics. During this, a chase and counter-chase occurred between the two sides. The incident took place on the KUET campus on Tuesday (18 February) afternoon.
Police, army and navy members are trying to control the situation.
Eyewitnesses said that in the afternoon, students circled the university student halls chanting various slogans including 'Student politics is the address, this will not happen in KUET', 'My demand is one, I want a campus free of politics', 'This will not happen in this campus, this is the address of student politics'. Later, tension arose between the two groups of students in front of the central Jama Masjid. Later, the chase and counter-chase spread outside KUET.
Outsiders from the KUET pocket gate got involved in a clash on the side of one group. It is said that several people were injured during this.
The injured in the clash are seen being taken to the hospital one by one in KUET ambulances. So far, four ambulances have taken the injured to the hospital.
Around 2 pm, BNP-supported outsiders beat up a student outside the KUET pocket gate, seriously injuring him, and threw him inside the campus. Since then, extreme tension has arisen among the general students.
The outsiders vandalized a KUET vehicle. At that time, general students attacked several houses in front of the KUET main gate.
Khanjahan Ali Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md. Kabir Hossain said, tension has arisen between two groups of students in KUET. Later, a chase and counter-chase occurred. We are working to control the situation.
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