Ten students were injured and had to be admitted to hospital due to the brutal police attack on the agitation held by university students to demand the government to abolish SAITM illegal medical degree awarding institute at Malabe and to find solutions for issues in the education sector. Ten more students have been arbitrarily arrested by the police say reports.
Riot police had been deployed to stop students’ protest march and they were seeing pursuing students attacking them with tear gas. While students were using taps in Viharmahadevi Park to wash their eyes to get relief, authorities took steps to stop the water supply to the Park.
Students in Viharamahadevi Park were subjected to tear gas attacks by the police on more than five occasions today evening. Even the public that was in restaurants and in the park was affected due to tear gas attacks as police directly targeted restaurants and toilets in the park say journalists who were there to cover the agitation. Even small children were not spared from the tear gas attacks.
Students say they would continue their struggle to get SAITM illegal den abolished whatever suppression the government carries out against them.
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