Blasts, JCD-BCL clashes spark tension on DU campus

At least five people were injured in the explosions and clashes and all of them were given first aid.

BCL activists also laid siege to the office of the vice-chancellor and ransacked furniture in protest against the attacks by JCD activists.

Campus sources said the clash erupted after a bomb went off near the Shaheed Minar of Jasimuddin Hall at around 1:00am, injuring two staff of the hall canteen and salon.

Bombs also went off beside the Modhu's Canteen at noon, injuring a student, Iqbal Hossain, a resident of Moshin Hall. Iqbal said the bomb was hurled form inside the boundary of the Institute of Business Administration.

On Tuesday night, a bomb exploded near the Teacher-Students.

Soon after the explosion at Jasimuddin Hall, the JCD activists came out onto the campus at dead of night and blamed the BCL for it.

They ransacked the cafeteria of Surya Sen Hall suspecting that the attackers took shelter there. They also drove away the BCL activists from the Jasimuddin Hall and Ziaur Rahman Hall after beating them.

Hearing the news, VC Prof SMA Faiz and Proctor AK Firoz Ahmed went to the hall, but the hall provost, Mahbubur Rahman, went to the scene three hours after the incident and faced agitation by JCD activists.

The provost submitted a resignation letter in the face of students' agitation, but the authorities are yet to accept it.

Protesting the attack on its activists, the BCL took out a procession yesterday morning and laid siege to the VC's office. A group of activists also ransacked the furniture in the office and held the VC responsible for the violence.

Meanwhile, panic gripped the students staying in halls. They feared that as the time of transferring power to a caretaker government nears, student organisations' bid to establish supremacy in halls would lead to bloodshed.