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Six people, including three students, have been killed amid the student-led anti-government demonstrations. At least 113 people injured in the clashes have been brought to hospitals for treatment.
Five of the dead were reported at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, while another person was declared dead at Mitford Hospital by a doctor in the emergency department, bdnews24.com reports.
A youth was brought with a bullet wound to the DMCH around 3:45 pm. He was identified as Abdullah Siddiqi, 23, a BBA student at Habibullah Bahar College. He lived in Old Dhaka’s Shaheb Bazar area.
Shortly afterwards, a youth named 22-year-old Touhidul Islam was brought in with a bullet wound from Farmgate. He died at 5:30pm.
He had completed his Higher Secondary Certificate exams and was waiting for admission at the undergraduate level.
He also worked at a private institution in Dhaka’s Mirpur DOHS. He hailed from Barishal’s Banaripara.
Two more people with serious injuries were brought to the hospital. Those who brought them in did not allow their identities to be registered. One of them was draped in a national flag.
Protesters then picked up the bodies of these two and Touhidul and carried them away towards Dhaka’s Central Shaheed Minar.
Their names and identities have yet to be confirmed.
Abdullah’s body is at the emergency department morgue.
Around 6:30 pm, a student named Ramiz Uddin Rup, 24, was brought to the hospital’s emergency department. He was declared dead on arrival. He was identified as a student of Daffodil University and had been brought from Karwan Bazar.
Another dead body was reported at Mitford Hospital. He was identified as Zahir Uddin, 25, and was brought in from Gulistan.
According to information from DMCH’s emergency department, at least 113 people with injuries were brought to the hospital as of 5pm amid the clashes between protesters, police, and pro-government activists.
They were injured by brickbats, sticks and rods, and bullets as well. Victims had been shot by shotgun pellets and live rounds.
A woman identified only as Bristy brought a child wounded by shotgun pellets to the hospital. The 9-year-old worked at a blazer store in New Market.
His father, Shaheen, is an expatriate living in Bahrain and hailed from Barishal’s Gauranadi. He is receiving treatment at the hospital.