Rab personnel among 15 hurt in BU clash

At least 15 people, including a member of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), were injured in a clash between Barisal University students and law enforces in Sadar upazila in Barisal district on Thursday. Witnesses said the BU students placed barricade on Barisal-Patuakhali Highway at Kornakathi around 11:00 am and staged demonstration there torching tyres, protesting assault on a student of the university by transport workers in a bus in the morning. The students alleged that helper and driver of a bus beat up a student of the university in the bus while going to the campus in the morning. After a while, a joint team of police and Rab appeared at the spot and asked the agitating students to leave the place. As the demonstrators refused to go away, the law enforcers fired rubber bullets and lobbed teargas canisters at them, leaving over 14 of them injured. Later, the agitating students threw brick chips at law enforces, leaving a Rab personnel wounded. Vehicular movement on the highway remained halted due to the blockade as of filing this report at 12:47am, according to UNB.