Islami Chhatra Shibir has called a half-day general strike for Thursday in protest at the deaths of two of its members in a clash at Chittagong University.
The lockdown will be enforced from 6am to 12pm in the port city, Shibir's metropolitan unit (north) president Mohammad Ismail told around 6:30pm on Wednesday.
Ismail said both south and north units of Chhatra Shibir have called on the strike with the support of Jamaat-e-Islami's Chittagong metropolitan unit.
Jamaat's metropolitan unit chief A N M Shamsul Islam MP has also confirmed his party's support for the shutdown.
Two pro-Jamaat-e-Islami students had died earlier in the day in clashes with pro-Awami League students over distribution of invites for the university's Islamic History department first-year orientation programme.
According to police and witnesses, the clash left at least 35 injured including CU proctor Nasim Hasan while police have arrested 10 Shibir activists from the campus.
Doctors at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) had declared zoology second-year student Mohammad Mojaheed and English final year student Masud Bin Habib dead around 3:30pm after they were taken there with fatal injuries.
Meanwhile, the university authorities have ordered all students to vacate the dormitories and postponed academic activities until Feb 16 following the clashes.
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