On Jul 19, mason Babul Mia went looking for his son amid the violence surrounding the quota reform movement and was shot in Dhaka’s Jatrabari. Now, one and a half months later, he has died at Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital.
The 47-year-old was a BNP supporter.
“I went to take part in the Anti-discrimination Student Movement’s protests on Jul 19,” said his son Abu Taleb. “My father went to look for me at 8:30pm that night and was shot in front of the Lucky Community Centre in Shanir Akhra in the Jatrabari Thana. He was shot from behind.”
Taleb says he was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital that night.
After the fall of the Awami League government, he was moved to the Pilkhana Hospital on August 18 and then to the CMH on August 22.
He died there on Monday, bdnews24.com reports.
Jatrabari police recovered the body and sent it to the Dhaka Medical College morgue for an autopsy.
Sub Inspector Md Kamruzzaman of the Jatrabari Police Station prepared the Surathal report.
Babul hailed from Patuakhali’s Dashmina Upazila. He lived in a rented place in Jatrabari’s Dania area.
He had two sons.
Abu Taleb is a first-year student of the higher secondary section at Dania School and College. His younger son Mahin is only one-and-a-half years old.
