Dhaka, April 18 -- Polytechnic students have held a mass procession while wearing burial shrouds to push for their six-point list of demands.

The students conducted the protest programme after the Jummah prayers at the mosque behind the Dhaka Polytechnic Institute. They marched to the Saat Rasta Intersection, turned around and then returned to the institute.

In a briefing after the procession, Jobair Patwari, a representative of the protest platform Karigari Chhatra Andolon and a student at the Dhaka Polytechnic Institute, said: "We say to the government - accept our demands as soon as possible and we will clear the road. Ensure the fair investigation and trial of the attacks on our Cumilla brothers. Ensure their proper medical treatmen...