GUWAHATI: A fleet of taxis, a safety escort, and a harrowing six-hour journey introduced Asif Hussain and about 80 different Indian college students again dwelling Friday from Bangladesh, the place violence has erupted between protesters and safety forces over the quota system for govt jobs. Over 100 folks have been killed within the clashes with police firing tear fuel and rubber bullets to scatter protesters who additionally torched automobiles and institutions.
For Hussain, who research at a personal medical school in Bangladesh’s Manikganj district, about 50km from Dhaka, being lower off from his household in India was particularly “nerve-racking”. He added, “Our school was not affected by the violence however we heard there was bother within the city (about quarter-hour away).”
As information got here in of scholar deaths in Dhaka, Hussain and about 80 others from his school employed non-public taxis to journey to the border Bangladesh shares with West Bengal, about 170km away.
Indian excessive fee in Bangladesh additionally offered the scholars with a safety escort after they requested for it, Hussain mentioned.
Leaving their school at 2.30am, the group reached the border six hours later however crossed it solely within the afternoon after clearing immigration. For Hussain, the journey will proceed for an additional day as he travels to his hometown, Dhubri, in Assam. “It has been very scary… I’ve (nonetheless) not been capable of communicate to lots of my associates in Dhaka,” he mentioned.
Meghalaya, which too shares a border with Bangladesh, can be serving to evacuate folks, with officers saying over 350 college students from India, Nepal and Bhutan have entered by way of this route to this point. reuters
Guwahati: A fleet of taxis, a safety escort, and a harrowing six-hour journey introduced Asif Hussain and about 80 different Indian college students again dwelling Friday from Bangladesh, the place violence has erupted between protesters and safety forces over the quota system for govt jobs. Over 100 folks have been killed within the clashes with police firing tear fuel and rubber bullets to scatter protesters who additionally torched automobiles and institutions.
For Hussain, who research at a personal medical school in Bangladesh’s Manikganj district, about 50km from Dhaka, being lower off from his household in India was particularly “nerve-racking”. He added, “Our school was not affected by the violence however we heard there was bother within the city (about quarter-hour away).”
As information got here in of scholar deaths in Dhaka, Hussain and about 80 others from his school employed non-public taxis to journey to the border Bangladesh shares with West Bengal, about 170km away.
Indian excessive fee in Bangladesh additionally offered the scholars with a safety escort after they requested for it, Hussain mentioned.
Leaving their school at 2.30am, the group reached the border six hours later however crossed it solely within the afternoon after clearing immigration. For Hussain, the journey will proceed for an additional day as he travels to his hometown, Dhubri, in Assam. “It has been very scary… I’ve (nonetheless) not been capable of communicate to lots of my associates in Dhaka,” he mentioned.
Meghalaya, which too shares a border with Bangladesh, can be serving to evacuate folks, with officers saying over 350 college students from India, Nepal and Bhutan have entered by way of this route to this point. reuters
For Hussain, who research at a personal medical school in Bangladesh’s Manikganj district, about 50km from Dhaka, being lower off from his household in India was particularly “nerve-racking”. He added, “Our school was not affected by the violence however we heard there was bother within the city (about quarter-hour away).”
As information got here in of scholar deaths in Dhaka, Hussain and about 80 others from his school employed non-public taxis to journey to the border Bangladesh shares with West Bengal, about 170km away.
Indian excessive fee in Bangladesh additionally offered the scholars with a safety escort after they requested for it, Hussain mentioned.
Leaving their school at 2.30am, the group reached the border six hours later however crossed it solely within the afternoon after clearing immigration. For Hussain, the journey will proceed for an additional day as he travels to his hometown, Dhubri, in Assam. “It has been very scary… I’ve (nonetheless) not been capable of communicate to lots of my associates in Dhaka,” he mentioned.
Meghalaya, which too shares a border with Bangladesh, can be serving to evacuate folks, with officers saying over 350 college students from India, Nepal and Bhutan have entered by way of this route to this point. reuters
Guwahati: A fleet of taxis, a safety escort, and a harrowing six-hour journey introduced Asif Hussain and about 80 different Indian college students again dwelling Friday from Bangladesh, the place violence has erupted between protesters and safety forces over the quota system for govt jobs. Over 100 folks have been killed within the clashes with police firing tear fuel and rubber bullets to scatter protesters who additionally torched automobiles and institutions.
For Hussain, who research at a personal medical school in Bangladesh’s Manikganj district, about 50km from Dhaka, being lower off from his household in India was particularly “nerve-racking”. He added, “Our school was not affected by the violence however we heard there was bother within the city (about quarter-hour away).”
As information got here in of scholar deaths in Dhaka, Hussain and about 80 others from his school employed non-public taxis to journey to the border Bangladesh shares with West Bengal, about 170km away.
Indian excessive fee in Bangladesh additionally offered the scholars with a safety escort after they requested for it, Hussain mentioned.
Leaving their school at 2.30am, the group reached the border six hours later however crossed it solely within the afternoon after clearing immigration. For Hussain, the journey will proceed for an additional day as he travels to his hometown, Dhubri, in Assam. “It has been very scary… I’ve (nonetheless) not been capable of communicate to lots of my associates in Dhaka,” he mentioned.
Meghalaya, which too shares a border with Bangladesh, can be serving to evacuate folks, with officers saying over 350 college students from India, Nepal and Bhutan have entered by way of this route to this point. reuters
