Two DU students assailed

Staff Correspondent
A student of Dhaka University was stabbed and another hacked by three other fellow students on the campus over a trifling matter yesterday. Readul Karim, a second year student of Islamic history, was stabbed by another student in front of DU central library around 4:00pm, while Abdus Salam Shyamol, a second year student of international relations, was hacked by two others before the law faculty around 11:30pm. Shyamol was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in a critical condition. The victims as well as the assailants are activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, campus sources said. Earlier, they had been locked in an altercation over a trifling matter and one of their senior leaders had supposedly settled the dispute.