BCL activist injured in attack at RU
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
An activist of Rajshahi University (RU) unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was injured in an attack by some miscreants in Old Folklore field on campus on Tuesday night. The injured was identified as Tariqul Islam, a 4th year student of the university’s Applied Physics Department. Witnesses said a gang of miscreants swooped on Tariqul while he along with a group of leaders and activists of BCL was passing through the area at about 8:30pm. They chopped Tariqul indiscriminately with sharp weapons, leaving him critically injured. He was rushed to the university hospital from where he was shifted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital as his condition deteriorated. Incensed, the BCL RU unit activists brought out a procession on the campus at about 10:30pm, according to a news agency.