Students stage demo, block roads protesting fellows’ death in Sylhet, Gazipur

SYLHET, Mar 24 (UNB): The students of Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) staged on Sunday demonstration protesting the death of a fourth-year student Wasim Afnan in Saturday's road accident.

The students from different dormitories staged demonstration in front of the vice-chancellor's residence around 11 am, and later took position in front of the Central Shahid Minar in the Chowhatta area.

The agitating students also put up barricade on Chowhatta intersection around 12pm, halting hundreds of vehicles standstill on the four roads linking the juncture.

Wasim Afnan, 22, a 4th-year student of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering department of the university and son of M Abu Zahed Mahbub and Dr Mina Parvin of Rudra village in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj, was crushed to death by a bus.