Six more Shibir men, staff arrested
Police early yesterday arrested six Shibir activists of Chittagong University unit and a CU staff from different places near the campus over an attack on CU teachers on Wednesday.
In the afternoon, a petrol bomb, 20 sticks, four sacks of brickbats and some CDs were seized from a mess of Shibir near Suhrawardi Hall of the university, said Kamrul Islam, assistant sub-inspector of Hathazari Police Station.
Emon Hossain and Md Mostafa Kamal, students of journalism; and Nurul Amin of Arabic, are among the arrestees, said police.
Of them, Ansarul Haque, is a class IV employee of CU, said Officer-in-Charge Md Ismail, adding that he used to work as an informer of Shibir and he informed the pro-Jamaat activists of the buses.
On the day of the incident, police arrested 11 Shibir men.
Meanwhile, demanding punishment for the attackers, Chittagong University Teachers' Association yesterday started a four-day work abstention for an hour.
Cuta President Prof Benu Kumar Dey told The Daily Star that examinations were out of the purview of the abstention programme.
At least 15 teachers of CU were injured when Shibir men allegedly hurled crude bombs at two university buses at Chhararkul in Hathazari upazila of Chittagong while the vehicles carrying the teachers were heading towards the campus on that day.
Shbir men under the banner of general students have been observing an indefinite strike since August 31 demanding that two dormitories--Shah Amanat Hall and Suhrawardy Hall--be reopened. The dormitories controlled by Shbir were closed following gunfights between Shibir and Bangladesh Chhatra League on January 12 and on August 24, said CU sources.
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