A Complete shutdown called by Anti-discrimination Student Movement is underway with protesters blocking roads and highways in Dhaka and other places across the country since Thursday morning.

The government has reinforced security deployment with paramilitary force Border Guard Bangladesh to maintain law and order on major public university campuses and other areas.

A youth was killed in overnight clashes at Jatrabari in Dhaka on early Thursday.

Traffic movement on busy Dhaka-Chattogram highway remained suspended as protesters continued to clash with police in the area till 10:00am on Thursday.

New Age Chattogram correspondent reported that a group of quota protesters gathered at Shah Amanat New Bridge and blocked Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway in the port city on Thursday morning.

The protesters started gathering in the area at about 10:00am.

Khan Mohammad Erfan, officer-in-charge of Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway Dohazari Police Station, confirmed the news.

He said that no Cox’s Bazar-bound transport was seen on the highway since morning.

Number of vehicles on the city roads was also low, he added.

New Age staff correspondent from Dhaka Medical College Hospital reported that several people, who sustained injuries in clashes amongst police and quota protesters in different areas in Dhaka, were brought to the hospital on Thursday morning.

Of the injured, Riad, 23, a water-supplier of Shonir Akhra area, Ashraful, 23, an auto-rickshaw driver sustained bullet injuries, said Hasan Shahriar, duty doctor of the hospital.

Another injured, Fozlul Hauque, an office assistant of the Secretariat was injured in a cocktail explosion in the capital’s Rampura area.