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Unidentified gunmen connected Monday (December 22, 2025) changeable successful the caput Motaleb Shikder, a 2nd person of Bangladesh’s convulsive student-led 2004 uprising.
The onslaught took spot successful southwestern Khulna city, days aft the sidesplitting of salient younker leader Sharif Osman Hadi.
"The Khulna Division caput of NCP (National Citizen Party) and cardinal coordinator of the party’s workers front, Motaleb Shikder, was changeable a fewer minutes ago," NCP’s associated main coordinator Mahmuda Mitu said successful a Facebook post.
Mitu, a doctor, said Shikder was rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital successful a captious condition.
The Kaler Kantha newspaper, quoting infirmary sources, said Shikder was changeable connected the near broadside of his head, and helium was bleeding profusely erstwhile helium was brought to the facility, wherever the doctors started exigency treatment.
The onslaught came days aft Hadi, a salient person of the student-led protests past twelvemonth that led to the ouster of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, was changeable successful the caput connected December 12 by masked gunmen astatine an predetermination run successful cardinal Dhaka’s Bijoynagar area.
The 32-year-old Inqilab Mancha spokesperson died portion undergoing attraction successful Singapore connected Thursday (December 18). Hadi was a campaigner for the scheduled February 12 wide elections.
The interim authorities of Muhammad Yunus staged a nationwide mourning for Hadi’s decease connected Saturday and said nary chromatic would beryllium near unturned to way down his killers arsenic unit erupted successful Dhaka and different large cities afresh implicit the onslaught and consequent death.
Faisal Karim Masud's parents, woman and a pistillate person of the premier fishy person been arrested by police, but said they were unsure astir his existent whereabouts.
After Monday’s (December 22) clandestine onslaught connected Shikder successful Khulna city’s Majid Sarani area, constabulary said they were yet astatine acheronian astir the onslaught perpetrators oregon motive but launched an “immediate manhunt” for their arrest.
Local constabulary presumption main Animesh Mondal, however, informed reporters that Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) authorities present shifted Shikder to its City Imaging Centre to pinpoint the authorities of his injury.
