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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi killed in helicopter crash
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Police and private security throng every entrance but one. Steel barriers line the streets. Students pack up belongings in their cars and leave for home - classes are cancelled, and exam plans are up in the air.
- Everywhere there is gloom, and uncertainty about what happens next at Columbia University in New York City.
- Students told the BBC that the university's decision to call in police to clear a Gaza protest late on Tuesday.
Leading to a raid on the occupied Hamilton Hall and more than 100 arrests, has left the college community shattered.
- The university president, Minouche Shafik, said that it
- was with great regret that she had ordered the police raid against
- students and others she said had infiltrated the protest. It would "take time to heal", she added in a message in the operation's aftermath.
For students of this prestigious school in Manhattan, how long is unclear.
students and others she said had infiltrated the protest. It would "take time to heal", she added in a message in the operation's aftermat
The crash comes at a time of growing dissent within Iran over an array of political, social and economic crises. Iran's clerical rulers face international pressure over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme and its deepening military ties with Russia during the war in Ukraine.
