ISLAMABAD: A brawl between two groups of students at Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology resulted in cross firing and spread fear and panic on the campus.
Sources said that the bone of contention was the incident of eve teasing of a female student by some of her fellows.
A student of MBA told Daily Times that on the minor issue, the members of two student groups, MSF and Pakhtun Student Federation initially exchanged hot words among them.
But after some time some more students reached there and the oral conflict was turned into a deadly scuffle in which the students thumped each other with punches, rods, kicks, chairs, bottles and other objects.
As the scuffle broke out, both the groups opened aerial firing due to which panic prevailed at a large scale among the students The administration instantly informed Aabpara Police Station, but the police reached the spot quite late.
Police tried to control the angry students who were firing bullets in the air and abusing each other. An eye witness told this scribe that SHO Abpara PS did not bother to come at the campus.
According to students of the FUUASR, the fight between two student groups shortly escalated into a bigger clash. Some students and faculty members tried to control the situation and asked the students involved in the fight to cool down but in vain. The brawl spread fear and panic at the campus and many students, especially women, locked themselves in classrooms while hundreds of others ran towards the basement to get refuge. At that time every person present in the campus was terrified.
Students of the university said while talking to Daily Times that this was not the first incident of its kind, a brawl had been also taken place at the university last week in which a large number of fire guns were used by the members of students groups and caused closure of the university for several days.
“The police seems helpless in controlling such kind of situations. Authorities concerned should take notice that conflict between students groups formed on ethnic and political basis results in brawls and the university would be often closed,which caused serious damages to the studies,” they added.
When contacted SHO Abpara, he said he was out of the city, adding that the persons responsible will be taken to justice.