Sylhet, March 23 -- Amid the outcry over the death of a private university student in the capital, another university student was crushed to death by a bus after its helper reportedly pushed him off the vehicle at Sherpur in Sadar upazila of Moulvibazar district on Saturday evening.

The deceased was identified as Wasim Afnan, a 4th-year student of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering department of Sylhet Agricultural University and son of M Abu Zahed Mahbub and Dr Mina Parvin of Rudra village in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj.

According to witnesses and victim's friends, 11 students of the university boarded a Sylhet-bound bus of 'Udar Paribahan' from Mymensingh.

They decided to get down from the bus at Sherpur. At that time, a brawl br...