Dorm vacated after intra-BCL clash

The Dhaka Medical College (DMC) authorities vacated Dr Fazle Rabbi Hall last night following a factional clash of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists that left at least 15 injured.
Students left the hall by 9:00pm as per instructions. The sudden decision, however, left general resident students in a fix. Many took shelter in their friends' houses or lodgings while some left for home.
Hall sources said the factions led by the college unit president, Humayun Islam Suman, and general secretary, Fahad Bin Kabir, clashed on the dormitory premises in the afternoon to flex muscle.
Tension had been prevailing at the hall since the morning, as both the groups were trying to undermine each other and establish their dominance, said sources.
The fighting broke out after loyalists of the general secretary along with some outsiders beat up Suman, the president, at Bakshi Bazar around 3:00pm.
Suman's followers responded immediately after hearing the news. Wielding sticks, rods, and cricket stumps, they attacked their opponents.  
Eleven of the injured took treatment in DMC hospital.
Tasnim Mahmud, office secretary of the college unit BCL, alleged that some supporters of the general secretary, Fahad, beat up the president as he protested against Fahad's giving shelter to a college unit Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal intruder, Miraj, also an accused in different cases, in a room of the hall.
Fahad could not be reached immediately.
Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Lalbagh Division Mofiz Uddin Ahmed told The Daily Star that they raided the hall following the clash and seized some iron pipes and sticks from there. None was arrested.