Road blocked protesting medical student’s death in road crash

Students of Dhaka National Medical College blocked Roy Saheb Bazar intersection in the old part of Dhaka for over half an hour today protesting the death of Sadia Hasan, a fifth-year student of the college.

The students, who took to the streets around noon, also threatened to go for tougher demonstrations if the culprit driver was not arrested immediately.

They withdrew the blockade around 12:40pm when the police personnel assured them of arresting the culprits in 24hrs.

Sadia, 23, was killed after a bus rammed the CNG-run auto-rickshaw she and her mother were in on North-South Road in Bangshal around 7:00am yesterday.

Soon after the accident, the students held a rally and issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the authorities concerned for the arrest of the driver and demanded stern punishment.

Sadia’s murder is not an accident but a murder, the agitating students alleged yesterday.

They also demanded that Johnson road be renamed as Sadia Sharani in remembrance of Sadia’s untimely death.