Dhaka: Students of Willes Little Flower School and College in Dhaka have threatened to launch a tougher movement if their demand for arresting the killer of their fellow is not met by 1 September.

‘We’ll go on a tougher movement if our demand for arresting Suraiya Akhter Risha’s killer is not met by the deadline,’ said Kazi Tawhid, a 2nd-year student of the institution during a demonstration at Kakrail in Dhaka, reports UNB.

Besides, he urged all the educational institutions to form a one-hour human chain from 12:00pm to 1:00pm in front of their respective institutions on 1 September instead of 31 August due to dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal for Wednesday enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the Supreme Court order upholding Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali’s death penalty.

Earlier in the day, the students blocked Kakrail road protesting the killing of the schoolgirl for the third consecutive day demanding the arrest of the killer of their fellow Suraiya Akhter Risha, halting vehicular movements on the roads in Malibagh, Shantinagar, Bijoynagar and Nayapaltan areas.

The protesting students took position on the road around 12:00pm and blocked it in front of the school, said witnesses.

The traffic returned to normalcy at about 2:45pm after the students withdrew their road blockade.

Suraiya Akhter Risha, 14, daughter of Md Ramzan Ali of Bangshal of old Dhaka and an eighth-grader of Willes Little Flower School and College, was stabbed by a stalker in front of her educational institution on 24 August.

She succumbed to her wounds at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Sunday morning.