College student's protest against drug peddling turns fatal

A college student hacked on the head by drug peddlers on November 24 succumbed to his injuries at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital yesterday, prompting aggrieved locals to bring out a procession with the body in Rajshahi city's Shaheb Bazar.
Mohammad Jony, 23, son of Mohammad Mortuja of Shekher Chalk and a second-year student of Shah Makhdum College, was hacked during a clash between some locals and the peddlers that began after he had protested the trade, said police.
He had been in the Intensive Care Unit since then. Police so far arrested Shimul and Manik, two of the nine persons Jony's father accused in a case.