The family鈥檚 hope for arranging the wedding of Md Shakil Hossen after his bachelor鈥檚 degree in 2025 fell through.
The family, rather, plunged into grief when Shakil, a fourth-year business administration student at Manarat International University, was shot in the chest at around 4:30pm on July 18.
He was, alongside, taking a bachelor鈥檚 course in law, too, at Tongi in Gazipur, hoping to become a magistrate one day.
He was shot when student protesters clashed with law enforcers in front of the Uttara East police station in Dhaka.
The students had held protests since July 1, seeking reforms in civil service job reservations. The protests flared into a mass uprising towards the end of July, overthrowing the Awami League government on August 5.聽聽聽
Shakil, 23 years old, had been involved in the protests from the beginning, his father Belayet Hossain said on September 23.
Belayat, who was in his village in Lakshmipur that day, had not spoken with Shakil, who was a correspondent of the Bhorer Awaz newspaper for Gachha in Gazipur.
鈥業 couldn鈥檛 go to Dhaka to receive the body. The situation was so tense,鈥� Belayat, who lives in Gazipur, said.
A friend of Shakil鈥檚 later took the body to his hometown, where he was buried the next morning.
Shakil, the youngest of four children of Belayat and Parvin Akter, could have been someone for the parents to fall back on after the wedding of his sisters.
Parvin has been bed-ridden for eight years and Shakil has been taking care of her all along.
Belayat said that he had plans to move back to his hometown after Shakil could have landed a job after the wedding.
鈥楾hings have changed for me altogether. I run a business in Dhaka to run my family,鈥� he said.
The government on August 28 said that about 1,000 people had died in the protests and subsequent uprising.
