Criminals stab Buet student at dorm
An unidentified man stabbed a Chhatra League activist at a student dormitory at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) in broad daylight yesterday.
With serious injuries to the head, back and the left eye, Arif Raihan Dwip, a third year student of mechanical engineering department, is now undergoing treatment at Square Hospital in the capital.
Nazrul Islam Hall guard Zakir Hossain said he around 11:30am saw a bearded youth, aged between 25 and 30 and wearing a panjabi with a bag on his back, drag Dwip down the stairs from the first floor of the dormitory.
A fellow student, who happened to be nearby, went to his rescue but failed to get him off the attacker, he said.
Zakir and the student then rushed to shut the hall gates but returned half-way on hearing scream. They saw Dwip lying in a pool of blood in front of the corridor while the attacker fled the scene, Zakir added.
Dwip, a member of the convenor committee of Buet Chhatra League, was first rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital but later shifted to Square Hospital for an operation.
He had been given some 50 stitches in the head and back, said Pijush Kanti Mitra, a neurosurgeon of DMCH, adding the attack had been made to kill Dwip.
Dwip's friends could not ascertain who was behind the attack. Buet BCL leaders, however, claimed that Jamaat-Shibir had been involved in the attack.
His new roommate at Nazrul Islam Hall said Dwip was involved in the ongoing Shahbagh movement calling for death penalty for war criminals and a ban on Jamaat-Shibir.
The university authorities formed a three-member committee to investigate the matter and submit a report within seven days, hall provost Prof Afsar Ali said.
Police recovered the bag of the attacker from the spot and found a panjabi, prayer cap and a machete stained with blood in it.
Police were investigating the incident, said Harun-Ur-Rashid, deputy commissioner (Lalbagh) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Traffic movement was suspended through the entry points of Buet, including Polashi intersection and Bakshi Bazar last night, as students blocked those, protesting the attack.
Some agitating students also torched the Buet security office.
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