Bangladesh

Students take to the streets for 6th day

Staff Correspondent
The students take to the streets of Dhaka for the sixth consecutive day in Asad Gate area of Mohammadpur on Friday morning. Photo: Dipu Malakar
The students take to the streets of Dhaka for the sixth consecutive day in Asad Gate area of Mohammadpur on Friday morning. Photo: Dipu Malakar

The students, mainly teenagers, took to the streets of Dhaka for the sixth consecutive day on Friday morning, demanding justice for death of their two fellow students in a road accident.

The students are seen working to impose discipline on the streets of Dhaka in the Asad Gate area of Mohammadpur on Friday morning. Photo: Dipu Malakar

The students gathered at the capital’s Asad Gate and Dhanmondi-27 areas around 11:00am with different placards.

Some of the students were seen guiding the transport workers to drive vehicles in a disciplined way on the roads.

The students use amplifier asking drivers to follow traffic rules in Mohammadpur on Friday morning. Photo: Dipu Malakar

Some of them were also seen using amplifier to control the chaotic traffic system, in a bid to decrease the number of road accidents.

Students in Mohammadpur on Friday morning stand with placards demanding justice for the death of two of their fellows in a road accident on 29 July. Photo: Dipu Malakar

However, the student movement sparked off after Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, students of class XI and XII of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College, were killed after a ‘Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan’ bus ploughed through some their fellows in the capital on 29 July.

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