Hasi Begum was crying sitting on the floor outside of the emergency room at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday as she lost her son Md Rakib, 22, who died in a clash during quota protests in Dhaka鈥檚 Badda area.
鈥榃hat did this happen? How would I live without my son?鈥� she wailed.
Rakib鈥檚 father Chanmia Shikder had been ill for many years now and Rakib was the only earning member of the family of five working at an electricity company in Aftabnagar, Hasi shared.聽
鈥楬e left home for work in the morning today and we got a call informing us that he was brought to Dhaka Medical. Now doctors are saying he is no more,鈥� she said howling.
Rakib is among 59 people, who died during clashes in different places in the聽 capital, including Badda and Jatrabari, as of 10:00pm on Friday alone, raising the total death toll to 105 during the violence in last four days.
Many public and private hospitals in the city flooded with hundreds of injured, mostly protesting students brought from Jatrabari, Rampura, Uttara, Azimpur and other areas as law enforcers clashed with the students demanding quota reform in government jobs on Friday.聽
On Thursday, at least 36 people were killed during clashes in Dhaka city and surrounding areas and Chattogram, Narsingdi, Madaripur and Sylhet.
A 22-year-old woman in room-7 at Dhaka Medical College Hospital howled as her husband Nazmul, 28, died after he was shot in a clash in the capital鈥檚 Shanir Akhra area on Thursday.
She said that Nazmul was a businessman and the only earning member of the family.
They have a two-year-old daughter, Nuzaira.
鈥楬e was not involved with any political parties then why did they kill him and what will I tell my daughter and Nazmul鈥檚 parents?鈥� she kept asking the reporters who were present there.
She demanded justice for his husband and urged the government to put an end to this situation.
Same day, Md Sourav brought a rickshaw puller Md Shakil, 20, who was seriously injured during a clash in Jatrabari area, to the emergency department at the hospital at about 5:00pm.
Later, the on-duty doctor declared him dead.
Sourav said that the rickshaw puller was found lying on the side of the road in Jatrabari Bridge area with injuries all over his face.
鈥業 along with two other pedestrians found him and took him to a private hospital in the area. Doctors there referred him to Dhaka Medical, and we brought him here, but he was declared dead,鈥� he said.
A 10-year-old boy, found senseless in the House Building area in the city鈥檚 Uttara, was brought to the hospital鈥檚 emergency department and admitted to Ward-114.
Hospital鈥檚 eurology department doctor Humayun Kabir Kallol, who brought him to the hospital, told 抖阴精品 that the boy could not provide proper information of his family.
鈥楬e said his name Rafi and father is Jakir, who works as a chef at an Uttara hotel,鈥� he said, adding that his family had yet to be traced on Friday evening.
On Monday, ruling Awami League鈥檚 student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League鈥檚 attack on quota protesters on the Dhaka University campus and other places left about 400 injured, triggering anger and anguish.
Clashes erupted on Tuesday as students under the platform Anti-discrimination Student Movement returned to the street, in some places ready to fight back if attacked, leaving six people killed on the day.
Protests began on July 1 following a High Court order on June 5 asking the government to restore 30 per cent quotas for the descendants of freedom fighters in public services.聽
