There were multiple casualties on both sides of the battle for free tertiary education this week, with protests becoming increasingly violent on university campuses. A Tshwane University of Technology student died after being hit by a car, a student leader was admitted to hospital after being shot in the back 13 times with rubber bullets at the University of the Witwatersrand, and two security guards at the University of Cape Town were seriously injured by students.Police say 567 people have been arrested in connection with student protests over the past eight months.On Friday, the distraught family of TUT student Benjamin Phehla arrived at the university to pack up his belongings in his room in a campus residence.story_article_left1Phehla, 23, died after a vehicle drove into him during a protest march on Thursday.His uncle, Simon Mphai, the director of security services at TUT, said Phehla's family, from Mmametlhake in Mpumalanga, was deeply traumatised and that his mother and brother were receiving counselling."It's not like he was in hospital with some kind of ailment ... he was knocked by a car and he passed away the same day. You can just imagine how difficult this is for the family," he said.Phehla was a third-year student at the faculty of information and communication technology and a former chairman of the faculty's student council.Police spokesman Brigadier Sally de Beer said police were investigating a case of culpable homicide. A statement had been taken from the car's driver but no arrests had been made."We are also investigating a charge of malicious damage to property after some students went to the driver's home and threw stones, breaking the windows and dragging a mattress out of his house and setting it alight," De Beer said.Also on Thursday, former Wits student representative council president Shaeera Kalla, a leader of the #FeesMustFall movement, was shot 13 times with rubber bullets by police.On Friday, family friend Shafee Vera chia said Kalla was recovering in hospital."We are all relieved she is fine but we are deeply concerned about the police brutality against young people," he said.full_story_image_hright1In Cape Town, security guard Quinton Marang, 45, contracted by Vetus Schola Protection Services, was brutally beaten after UCT protesters thought they recognised him from a picture published in a Cape Town newspaper. In the photograph the guard appeared to be holding a female student by her hair.Marang, who was discharged from hospital on Friday, denied he was the guard in the photo.He said he had been holding a door shut to restrict access to the library in which security guards had barricaded themselves with two arrested students after protests turned violent on Tuesday.story_article_right2He said he had been separated from his group and attacked because he was isolated."My family were worried about me when they saw on the news what was happening at the universities," said Marang, a sole breadwinner."They tried calling the hospital the whole time, asking where I am."The company's community development manager, Patrick Hall, said Marang had suffered "a knock against his head and he had bleeding between the skin and the skull".Another guard was admitted to hospital on Wednesday after a rock was dropped on his head from an upper storey of the Steve Biko Students Union building.A trauma counsellor is assisting all UCT security guards "indefinitely".Acting national police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane said 567 people had been arrested in connection with protests related to #FeesMustFall over the past eight months, with charges including contravention of interdicts preventing student demonstrations, public violence, malicious damage to property, resisting arrest and assault on police. - Additional reporting by Yasantha Naidoo..