20 hurt as medical tech students clash with cops

At least 20 persons, including two policemen, were injured in a clash between medical technology students and police in the capital's Agargaon yesterday.
Around 400 students from six private medical technology institutes laid siege to Technical Education Board to press home their five-point demand, including getting certificates from the board, and government jobs.
They started agitation at the office around 10:00am.
After one hour, a police team charged them with batons, lobbed tear gas canisters and shot rubber bullets, dispersing the agitators.
Later, a group of students gathered there again and threw brickbats at the police, ensuing chase and counter-chase with the law enforcers for about half an hour that injured 20 students.
They took treatment in different clinics and pharmacies instead of hospitals to avert arrest, a student said.
The injured police constables are Atiq and Mostafiz.
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police Officer-in-Charge Abdul Momin said Atiq was injured by cocktail splinter exploded by the students. He was taken to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedic Rehabilitation.
Momin said two agitators were arrested from the spot.