1,200 sued, no one held

Accusing 1,200 unnamed people, a case was filed with Akhaura railway police yesterday in connection with Tuesday's vandalism at Brahmanbaria Railway Station.

Abdus Sattar, officer-in-charge of Akhaura Railway Police Station, said Station Master Muhidur Rahman filed the case.

The police could not arrest anyone as of yesterday evening, the OC said.

Enraged students of Jamiah Islamia Yunusia Madrasa vandalised several establishments in Brahmanbaria town on Tuesday following the death of a fellow student.

Armed with bamboo sticks and iron rods, they vandalised the railway station, removed fishplates of rail lines and broke a signal panel, disrupting rail link on Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet routes for hours.

The agitators also carried out vandalism at Sur Samrat Ustad Alauddin Sangitangon, Dhirendanath Datta Bhasha Chattar, an Awami League office and set fire to a police van, said witnesses.

They took to the street as fellow student Masudur Rahman, 20, succumbed to his injuries, which, the students claim, he had received in an overnight clash with traders and Bangladesh Chhatra League activists in Zilla Parishad Market area.

The clash ensued on Monday evening when some students went there to buy a mobile phone. At least 30 people were injured in the clash, according to police.

Doctors at Brahmanbaria Sadar Hospital said Masudur with bruises in his body was brought dead to the hospital around 3:00am on Tuesday.