DHAKA, April 24: A mob clashed with police and set ablaze nine vehicles after a teenage student were killed in a road accident in the Bangladesh capital on Sunday, police said. “Some 7,000 people including hundreds of students went on a rampage setting ablaze nine buses and a van after a 13-year-old student was killed in a road accident this noon,” police officer in-charge Jane Alam told AFP.

Traffic was brought to a standstill on the city’s busy Mirpur street for several hours, Alam said.

Police arrested the driver of a bus that hit the student and brought the mob under control by firing tear gas canisters into the crowd, he said.

Road accidents in Bangladesh annually kill around 5,000 people, one of the highest casualty rates in the world.—AFP