The students of Khulna University on Friday blocked the Khulna-Satkhira highway protesting an attack on their fellow in Khulna city.
Taking position on Gollamari Mor of the highway at around 1pm, they chanted different slogans.
As the blockade continued for about two and a half hours, a large number of vehicles got stranded on both sides of the important highway.
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Later they withdrew the blockade around 3:30pm after the authorities concerned assured them of meeting their two-point demand.
According to the campus sources, Shafayet Sagar, a fourth year student of Mathematics department of Khulna University, locked into an altercation with a truck driver around 11:30am.
At one point, the truck driver and his assistant started beating Shafayet, leaving him injured.