Agitated students of the Fine Arts Institute on Monday demonstrated and vandalised a number of vehicles after one of their fellow students was injured in an accident on Dhaka University campus.

Witnesses said Sakhwat Hossain Rony, a second year student of Drawing and Oainting Department, received injuries while crossing road  near Suhrawardy Udyan at about 1pm.  The microbus ran over Rony's leg, they added.

He is undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Angered by the  accident, fellow students of Rony tok to the stree at vandalised a number of vehciles, suspended vehicular movement on the road for half an hour.

Later, police and university officials and leaders of different student organisations rushed to the scene.
 
DU proctor Prof AM Amzad said police authorities have been requested to stop movement  of large vehicles through the university area.

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