Brawl over fare, buses smashed in Farmgate

Dhaka, Jul 24 (bdnews24.com) — Students of Tejgaon College have vandalised four buses at Farmgate area on Tuesday and beat up driver of a bus following a brawl over fare.

Sub Inspector of Traffic Police Ruhul Amin said several students of the college exchanged heated arguments with the staffs of a Motijheel-Cantonment route bus around 9:30am while the bus was on its way to Farmgate from Shahbugh.

When the bus reached Farmgate, where the college is located, up to 25 students beat up the bus driver and smashed the bus, he said.

The Tejgaon College students vandalised three other buses and for this vehicular movements came to a halt for nearly half an hour in the area, the police officer said.

Assistant Sub Inspector of Tejgaon Police Station Munsi Abdul Lokman said traffic resumed around 10am at the intervention of the law enforcers.

The injured driver, 'Shafik', has been taken to hospital, the ASI said.

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