Unrest has been continuing in Bangladesh after the killing of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi. On Monday, a National Citizen Party youth leader was also injured in a shooting.
Amid ongoing unrest in Bangladesh following the killing of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, a National Citizen Party (NCP) leader was shot on Monday in Khulna city.
Unknown gunmen opened fire on Motaleb Shikder, the NCP’s Khulna divisional chief and a central organiser of NCP Sramik Shakti, according to a report by NewAge. The report stated that Khulna Metropolitan Police Additional Commissioner for Crime Mohammad Rashidul Islam Khan said that Motaleb suffered a bullet injury to his ear after “unidentified gunmen opened fire at him, allegedly aiming for his head”.
The incident took place at a house in Khulna city’s Sonadanga area, police said, according to reports.
The attack comes in the wake of nationwide violence triggered by the death of Hadi, the founder of Inqilab Mancha, a radical student group at Dhaka University.
Here’s what police said
“Miscreants opened fire targeting his head around 11:45 AM, and he was rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital in critical condition,” the Daily Star reported, citing the officer-in-charge (investigation) of Sonadanga Model Police Station, Animesh Mondol.
The officer said Motaleb was out of danger, explaining that the bullet entered through one side of his ear, grazed the skin, and exited from the other side.
The National Citizen Party was formed by Students Against Discrimination and the Jatiya Nagorik Committee after the removal of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Established on 28 February this year, it is Bangladesh’s first student-led political party.
Osman Hadi’s murder
The incident comes on the heels of the murder of Hadi, a prominent leader of the student-led protests last year that led to the ouster of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government. Hadi was a candidate in the scheduled 12 February general elections.
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