Police arrested two persons from different parts of Rajshahi in connection with a case filed over attack on the students of Rajshahi Shah Makhdum Medical College and Hospital on Friday.

The arrestees are Beauty, wife of Maniruzzaman Swadhin, managing director of the medical college and Mithu, brother of Swadhin.

Sirajum Monir, officer-in-charge of Chandrima Police Station, said a case was filed with the police station against nine identified people and some unidentified persons on Friday night.

Rajshahi Shah Makhdum Medical College and Hospital Managing Director Maniruzzaman Swadhin, his wife Beauty and three brothers of Swadhin were among the accused.

On Friday, 10 students of the medical college and hospital were injured in an attack by some outsiders who had tried to enter the college in the evening.

Of the injured, seven students were taken to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital for treatment.

Meanwhile, a group of students of the medical college are staging a sit-in programme on the college campus on Saturday morning, protesting the attack on the students.

They also demanded immediate arrest of the attackers involved in the incident.

Additional police have been deployed in the area to fend off further trouble.

BDST: 1558 HRS, NOV 28, 2020
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