Police fire tear gas, sound grenades at DU students’ coffin procession
July 17, 2024
Police on Wednesday afternoon fired tear gas and sound grenades at protesting students of Dhaka University who brought out a coffin procession after holding a ‘gayebana jazana’ for six persons killed on Tuesday as students’ protests against the quota system in government jobs across Bangladesh turned deadly amid attacks by the police and ruling Awami League supporters on protesters.
The DU correspondent from the spot reported that a clash broke out between the protesters and the police and it continued till about 5:30pm.
Hasnat Abdullah, co-coordinator of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, said that although the students brought out a peaceful coffin procession, the police attacked it at about 3:30pm.
