Injured Chhatra Dal leader dies in Dhaka

A leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, who sustained bullet injuries during a clash between police and BNP men on Sunday, died at a hospital in Dhaka on Wednesday, raising the death toll from the incident to two.

The deceased was identified as Nure Alam, president of district unit JCD.

Humayun Kabir Swapan, joint general secretary of district unit BNP, said Nure Alam suffered bullet wounds during a clash with police on Sunday.

He was taken to Comfort Diagnostic Centre in the capital on the same day where he succumbed to his injures around 3:15pm.

He had been on life support at the hospital.

The Bhola unit BNP has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district for Thursday protesting the death of Nure Alam.

The strike will be observed from 6:00am to 6:00pm across the district on the day, Humayun Kabir Sopan BNP’s Bhola unit joint general secretary said.

As part of BNP’s countrywide demonstration programme protesting the ongoing load shedding and mismanagement in the power sector, the leaders and activists of the party gathered in front of their district party office in Bhola on July 31.

At one stage, police obstructed them when they tried to stage demonstrations at Kalinath Roy Bazar around 11:30am, triggering a clash.

Later, police fired bullets and lobbed teargas shells that left local Swechchasebak Dal leader Abdur Rahim dead and some other leaders and activists of the party injured.

Later on Monday two cases were filed against 600 people in connection with the clash between activists of BNP and police. Around 250-300 unnamed people were made accused in a murder case while 75 named and 300 unnamed people were sued in the other case filed on charge of assaulting police.

Sub-inspector of Bhola Sadar police station Md Jasim filed a case with the police station on Sunday night, said OC Enayet Hossain.