The Directorate General of Health Services on Tuesday for the first time published a list of 708 deaths in the student-led mass uprising in July-August that forced deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country on August 5.
The DGHS said that the list was prepared based on information collected from public and private hospitals across the country.
It published the list asking the public to provide more information and enlist the names if anyone was found missing on the list.
The health affairs sub-committee of the Student Movement Against Discrimination, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and different non-government organisations came up with different death figures.
Tariqul Islam, a member of the health affairs sub-committee of the Student Movement Against Discrimination in a Facebook post on Friday said that they collected a list of 1,423 people martyred in the July revolution.
鈥楾his number can be more or less. We will be able to make a full list very soon,鈥� he said.
The health adviser to the interim government, Nurjahan Begum, however, after visiting Central Police Hospital in the capital鈥檚 Rajarbagh on August 29 said that more than 1,000 people were killed and over 400 blinded during the student-led mass uprising.
On August 21, non-government rights organisation Human Rights Support Society published a report of 819 deaths during the protests based on information collected from victims鈥� families, hospitals, witnesses, and national dailies.
According to a primary report of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights published on August 16, as many as 650 people were killed in Bangladesh during the student-led protests between July 16 and August 11.
Of these, nearly 400 deaths were reported from 16 July to 4 August, while around 250 people were reportedly killed following the new wave of protests between 5 and 6 August.
The report also found that the security forces, including the police and the Border Guard Bangladesh, used unlawful lethal weapons, deliberately targeting unarmed people.
