Three students stabbed

Our Correspondent, Narsingdi
A gang stabbed three students of Narsingdi Model College as they protested assault on the principal of the college yesterday. The injured were identified as Shuvo, 17, Niloy Saha, 18, and Iftekhar, 18 -- all students of HSC second year. College sources said, Akib, 17, a student of HSC second year, entered the classroom with a mobile phone around two months back. The phone was seized by the principal as per the school managing committee's decision. Yesterday, around 11:30am, Akib along with some outsiders, entered the principal's room and asked him to return the phone. As the principal refuted to do so, Akib and him cohorts began to assault the principal. Seeing the incident, college student Shuvo protested it. Later a gang of 10 to 12, led by Akib, entered the college campus for the second time and stabbed Shuvo, Niloy and Iftekhar with sharp weapons, leaving them critically injured.