The Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh has been declared closed indefinitely following an attack on protesting students who had confined the vice-chancellor and more than 200 teachers over demands for a single combined degree.

Students have been instructed to vacate their dormitories by 9am Monday (1 September), said Mymensingh Deputy Commissioner Mufidul Alam and Professor Md Asaduzzaman Sarkar, general secretary of the university’s Teachers’ Association. 

Earlier, at least four students were injured in an alleged attack by a group of outsiders during the protest.

In response to the unrest, two platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed in the university area.

Quoting Vice-Chancellor Professor AK Fazlul Haque Bhuiyan, the deputy commissioner said that after an academic council meeting at 11am, an emergency syndicate meeting was convened online at 9:30pm on Sunday. 

Based on that decision, the university was ordered shut until further notice, with students directed to leave the halls.