Agitating students trashed the assurance of authorities and refused to move from the streets on demands for safer roads for all citizens.
They rejected the assurance given by Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam and Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia.
The mayor and police commissioner unveiled the foundation plaque of a foot bridge near Bashundhara Residential today and went up to the students.
They tried to talk to the protesting students, requesting them to move away from the road upon assurance that tough measures will be taken.
However, the students rejected their assurances and forced them to leave the spot empty handed, our correspondent reports from the spot.
“There have been many promises in the past. But none of them were kept,” a student of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) told The Daily Star on anonymity.
They were demanding capital punishment of the driver responsible for student’s death yesterday, shutting down Jabal-e-Noor and Suprabhat buses, and foot over-bridges near all educational institutions.
BUP student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury, a road safety campaigner himself, was crushed under a bus at the gates of Bashundhara Residential yesterday.
It sparked protests among students yesterday, which grew in magnitude and spread across Dhaka city today for demands of safer roads for all.
