CU BCL opens fire on campus
In an apparent bid to establish supremacy, two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League of Chittagong University fired blank shots on the campus on Sunday night.
Police said 40 activists carrying firearms and sharp weapons led by Jalal Ahmed, immediate past office secretary of BCL's CU unit, marched to Pagoda around 11:00pm, firing 12 to 13 blank shots.
They were searching for one Rakib, a loyalist of Suman Mamun, BCL's immediate past joint general secretary of the unit, in a cottage on the Pagoda compound where some Buddhist students reside, police said.
BCL insiders said Suman's faction had been away from the campus for quite a while but some of his followers had started residing in the Pagoda cottages recently and Jalal wanted to drive them out.
Jalal denied his faction's involvement in the incident and said junior BCL activists chased away some outsiders who were committing crimes by taking shelter in the cottages.
Officer-in-Charge of Hathazari Police Station Ismail Hossain said that while leaving the campus, Sumon's followers fired two blank shots.
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