A teenager, who sustained bullet injury in a gunfight between two drug peddler groups in the Urdu-speaking people camp in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur area on Saturday evening, died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday morning.
The victim, Sazzad Hossain, 13, was admitted to the DMCH after sustaining bullet injury.
Mohammadpur police station officer-in-charge Ali Iftekhar Hasan said that the body of Sazzad would be handed over to his family after post-mortem examinations.
The victim鈥檚 father Shamser said that Sazzad sustained bullet injury when he went out from home for collecting water during the gunfight of two groups.
鈥楬e is my only son. The bullet directly hit my son鈥檚 chest. The doctor鈥檚 conducted a 12-hour long surgery but could not save my child,鈥� said Shamser, a barber by profession.
Besides Sazzad, at least three people were injured in the gunfight. They are now undergoing treatment at Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital.
A tense situation is prevailing in and around camp areas as two groups of drug peddlers continued to fighting over spreading dominance in the area.
