Violence flares in Mymensingh
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Bazar Road. He too was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
Mehedi, 24, a mason, was shot in the head around 6:45pm during a clash on the same road. He was also taken to the same hospital and declared dead.
“My son was returning home from work. He was not a protester,” said Mehedi’s mother Jahanara Begum.
Sixth-grader Saad Mohammad Khan, 13, was killed when he went to watch a clash in Savar’s Dogormura area around 6:00pm. He was shot in the abdomen.
He was taken to Enam Medical College Hospital, where he died around 8:30pm, said doctors.
Around 50 people with bullet and shotgun-pellet injuries received treatment at the hospital and at Savar Upazila Health Complex.
Eight of them were in the ICU of Enam Medical.
In Narayanganj, sporadic clashes went on all day long from the Signboard area to Kanchpur on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway.
Six vehicles and a market were torched.
Law enforcers hurled sound grenades from helicopters to disperse the agitators.
Three men -- Sajal, 22, Shahin, 23, and Hridoy, 22 -- were declared dead in the district’s Sugondha Hospital, said hospital manager Abdul Jalil.
Sajal, who was shot in the abdomen, appeared for SSC exams this year, while Shahin, who had pellet wounds on his body, was a cashier at a hotel. Hridoy had bullet injuries in the head and waist.
Meanwhile, garment worker Minarul, 25, was brought dead to the Narayanganj 300-bed Hospital around 8:00pm last night, said Apu Kumar Saha, a medical officer there.
He was shot in the abdomen during the clash, the doctor said quoting Minarul’s parents.
Around 50 people with bullet and pellet injuries were admitted to a private hospital in Narayanganj’s Signboard area between 6:00pm and 8:00pm, doctors said.
In Kishoreganj’s Pakundia upazila, 20 people, including an assistant commissioner (land) and five policemen, were injured as agitators clashed with police and ruling party activists in the Pakundia Bazar area.
In Narsingdi, the Panchadhana Muktijoddha Complex was vandalised and torched by demonstrators around 12:30pm, said police.
In Shibpur upazila, they vandalised a highway police outpost around 3:00pm.
In Sylhet, several groups of people were seen trying to block the Sylhet-Sunamganj Highway but police and army personnel obstructed them.
In Gazipur, a police box was vandalised at Board Bazar and another one was torched at Chandana intersection.
(Our correspondents from the districts contributed to this report.)