The students of Dhaka College and Ideal College on Tuesday locked in a clash in the Science Laboratory area leaving around 80 students and two teachers injured.
Several hundred students of the two colleges engaged in the clash at around 1:30pm resulting chase and counter-chase while Dhaka College students vandalised the Ideal College building.
Ideal College students claimed that some Dhaka College students assaulted their fellows in the聽 Science Laboratory area while students of Dhaka College claimed that Ideal College students assaulted two of their fellows first.
Jahirul Islam, a third-year student of Dhaka College, sustained head injury by a brickbat during the clash.
He claimed that they marched towards the Ideal College after hearing that two of their fellows were assaulted. Jahirul alleged that Ideal College students attacked them leaving around 30 students and a teacher injured as the attackers came inside the campus.
Arifin Abir, an HSC secwond-year student of Ideal College, claimed that they came out of the campus as students of Dhaka College attacked our fellows and the campus building.
鈥楾hey assaulted our fellows in front of the college. They broke our campus building gate and glasses of the windows,鈥� said Abir.
Sohrab Ahmed, a second-year student of Ideal College, claimed that around 50 students and a teacher of the college were injured during the attack.
He also mentioned that some of the injured were taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and some were taken to nearby private hospitals for treatment.
DMCH police outpost in-charge Muhammad Faruk said that 17 injured related with the clash came for treatment in the hospital.
New Market police station officer-in-charge Mohsin Uddin said that army and police rushed to the spot upon hearing the incident and calmed the situation.
No written complaint was filed regarding the clash as teachers of the colleges said that they would solve the issue through discussion, added the OC.
Dhaka College physics department professor Sheikh Sabbir Ahmed said that the clash was unexpected and the teachers of the two colleges decided to announce a two-day holiday for the HSC sections following the clash.
The clash temporarily blocked the road for around one and a half hours affecting traffic in the area.
Dhaka College and other nearby collages earlier engaged in clashes different times over trifling matters.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
