DHAKA, Aug 25: One person was killed on Monday when activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s student wing, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, went on rampage at Dhaka University and adjacent areas, on reports that detained former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s ailing son Tarique Rahman sustained injuries in prison cell.

The dead was identified as Jahangir Alam, a shopkeeper of Mirpur Road, who was lethally injured in the cylinder blast of a CNG auto-rickshaw. The agitating students set the auto rickshaw on fire.

Student activists turned furious after reports spread that the prison authorities were not allowing Mr Tarique Rahman to go out of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University to have CT scan of his head.

A physically weak, Tarique Rahman, who is also a joint secretary of the BNP, injured his head when he fell down in the hospital washroom on Monday.

Chhatra Dal activists at Jahangirnagar University, some 20 km off Dhaka, also blocked the Dhaka-Aricha highway for two hours from 5pm, disrupting communication between the capital and northern and southern districts.

They also set ablaze an effigy of the chief adviser of the caretaker government, Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed.

“Tarique Rahman fell down in a bathroom and received abrasion on his head,” said the vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Professor Dr Mohammad Tahir. “The hospital authorities have taken steps to provide him best available treatment.”