B'desh students on rampage for World Cup TV sets

DHAKA, May 30: Students at a Bangladesh university ransacked their dormitory and burned furniture to pressure officials to buy two new televisions in time for the soccer World Cup.

Two broken television sets were dragged out and burned last night, said an official of the dormitory for 2,500 students.

''It's an outburst as the authorities did not comply with our demand to sanction new television sets,'' a student of the dormitory told Reuters.

Each of the other 15 dormitories at Dhaka University, the country's biggest, has two television sets for the students.

The World Cup in Germany begins on June 9.

REUTERS