Another Joypurhat victim dies in Bogra
A woman, who suffered bullet wounds during Sunday’s clash between Jamaat-e-Islami and law enforcers in Joypurhat, died at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in Bogra early today.
The death toll from the clash hit five with the latest one.
Asma Begum Razia, 42, who was hit by bullets in her abdomen, succumbed to her injuries around 3:30am, reports our Dinajpur correspondent quoting Saiful Islam, chairman of Puranpoil union.
Razia, wife of Abu Saleh of Dastopur village in Joypurhat Sadar upazila, was caught in the gunfight between Jamaat-Shibir activists and law enforcers on Sunday when she was going to Halottibazar on foot.
The gunfight ensued after around a thousand Jamaat-Shibir men encircled patrol team of police, Border Guard Bangladesh and Rapid Action Battalion, who went to Puranpoil area on receiving information that the activists were gathering there to commit subversive activities.
Two Jamaat men -- Shamim Hossain, 24 and Insan Ali, 22, -- died on the spot while a rickshaw-van puller was killed when he came in the line of fire during the gun-battle.
Another bullet-hit Jamaat man Abdur Rahman, 45, succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday.
Razia was rushed to Joypurhat Modern Hospital immediately after his bullet wounds. Later on Monday, she was shifted to the Bogra hospital as her condition deteriorated.
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