BCL men vandalise 2 coaching centres in capital

Shattered glass doors of the office of Focus, a university admission coaching institution in the capital's Farmgate, which was vandalised yesterday by some men claming to be activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League. Photo: STAR

Some men, claiming to be the ruling pro-Awami League student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists, yesterday ransacked two coaching centres in the capital's Farmgate, stating that those were run by Islami Chhatra Shibir.
No one was reportedly injured as the officials and students of the medical college and university admission coaching centres fled sensing the attack.
The vandals said it was in retaliation to the attack on a former BCL leader of Rajshahi University whose left leg tendon was cut allegedly by cadres of pro-Jamaat-e-Islami student organisation Shibir on Wednesday.
Witnesses said the BCL men, armed with sticks, suddenly raided the offices of Focus and Retina, housed on a building's second and third floors, around 3:00pm.
They vandalised the furniture and broke the glasses but could not enter the rooms inside as its officials had locked them before fleeing, said a security guard of the building.
The youths also vandalised a glass of Al-Razi Diagnostic Centre, housed in the same building.
"An investigation is going on to determine who carried out the attack and for what," said Additional Deputy Commissioner Biplab Sarkar of Tejgaon Zone, adding that no one had filed any complaint in this regard yet.