Students and interns of Rangpur Medical College and Hospital blocked
the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway in the city on Saturday protesting the
death of a physician of the hospital in a road accident on Thursday.
Witnesses said hundreds of agitating students and interns staged
demonstration and held rally blocking the highway for one hour from
11:00 am, causing a long tailback on both sides of the highway.
They threatened to start a tougher movement if the driver is not
arrested within 24 hours.
Associate professor of medicine department of the college Dr.
Istehaque was injured as a truck hit him at Paglapir in Sadar Upazila
on September 15.
Critically injured Istehaque was sent to Dhaka where he died at a
hospital on September 19.
Hearing the news, the RMCH students went on a rampage in the city and
vandalized a number of vehicles on Thursday night. -UNB, Rangpur
