15 hurt as students clash with cops in Bagha

At least 15 people, including three policemen, were injured as students of Shahdoula Degree College in Bagha clashed with police during their demonstration, demanding a new examination centre.

The clash erupted at around 11:30am when police baton-charged the students who had put up a barricade on the Bagha-Charghat road.

Abu Bakar Siddik, a teacher of the college, said the clash began after a sub-inspector beat up two students.

Amjad Hossain, principal of the college, said the examinees of the college suffer as they have to take examinations at another college, which is six kilometers away, so they were demanding a new examination centre at their college.

Ali Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Bagha Police Station, said the students were creating traffic jam on the road and threw brick chips on the police when they were asked to demonstrate inside the college.