USTC area becomes battlefield over trifling matter
Students of University of Science and Technology Chittagong (USTC) and Omar Gani MES College yesterday engaged in a brawl over a trifle creating panic in the port city's GEC intersection area.
The clash that started around 6:30pm spread outside the USTC campus. The students of USTC put up barricades on the street and traffic in front of the campus came to a halt for over an hour.
Sources at the USTC said a freshers' reception programme of pharmacy department was underway on campus when several MES College students, who were friends of some USTC students, joined.
The brawl started over sitting on a motorbike that had an anti-theft alarm, said Sub-Inspector Shah Paran of Khulshi Police Station.
During the programme, when someone sat on the bike, which belonged to an MES College student, the alarm went off.
A few students of USTC claimed that they just sat on it while chatting and the alarm went off but some of the students of MES College alleged that they were trying to steal the bike, said witnesses.
Students of MES College allegedly beat up a student of USTC during the altercation.
After that, some 500 students of USTC took to the streets and put up barricades stopping traffic between GEC and AK Khan intersections.
Police rushed to the spot and removed the barricades around 8:00pm. A significant number of police were deployed there, said Obaidul Hoque, inspector (investigation) of Khulshi Police Station.
Asked, Prof Shams-ud-Doha, registrar of USTC, said he had heard about the matter, but did know any details.
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