Student injured jumping off college building in Dhaka

A student of Dhaka’s Banophool Adibashi Green Heart College was injured after jumping off a building today as his teacher allegedly hurled abusive words at him for not being successful in the examination.

Shahriar Alam Akash, 19, was a student of class-XII at the college in Mirpur-13 area, police said.

Akash is undergoing treatment at National Institute of Neuroscience and Hospital at Agargaon.

He suffered injuries in head, our staff correspondent reports quoting a doctor.

Officer-in-charge (OC) of Kafrul Police Station Selimuzzaman said they heard Akash jumped off a third-storey building of the institute as one of his teachers hurled abusive words to him and his parents as he failed to pass an examination.

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As the news spread at the college, his classmates vandalised several rooms of the college teachers, the OC added.

The agitating students also brought out a protest rally outside the campus, OC Selimuzzaman said.

“We are yet to receive any version from the college authority,” the OC further said.