CU classes resume tomorrow amid siege programme

CHITTAGONG, Jan 14: Classes at the Chittagong University (CU) will resume on January 16 after a month-long vacation for holy Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr amid an indefinite siege programme enforced by Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS).

The Jamaat-backed Shibir enforced the siege programme on the campus protesting killing of its two leaders in a gunbattle with the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on the campus on December 19.

The dormitories of the university will reopen at 10 am tomorrow for the resident students amidst tight police security.

Official sources said a total of 3,000 additional security forces were deployed on the campus to avert further violence.

The CU authorities vacated the dormitories and postponed all scheduled examinations of the university till January 13 following the gunbattle.