Private univ student shot dead in Savar

A student of City University was killed while his classmate is on life support after being shot at the university gates in Khagan of Savar on the outskirts of the capital yesterday.

Sifat, 22, a final-year textiles student of Muktagachha in Mymensingh, died on being hit by a bullet to the right chest while Bashudeb Pal was hit in the back by two.

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Students accompanying the body at Enam Medical College Hospital claimed that a student of the university arrived at the gates around 2:00pm with some 10-15 youths on seven to eight motorcycles.

The student arriving with the youths started shouting the name of another student, challenging him to attack over a dispute they had over a girl, they said. When some students came out, the group on motorcycles fired some shots and fled, they added.

Students caught two persons from the spot on suspicion and handed them over to police. They also blocked the Berulia-Savar road for some time, torched a motorcycle and vandalised some roadside shops before police arrived.

Savar Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge SM Kamruzzaman said they were conducting an investigation. The university Deputy Registrar Faruque Ahmed said a committee would be formed to launch a probe.

The body was set to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for an autopsy.