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Four more people, who were either shot or suffered burn injuries on August 5 during the mass uprising overthrowing the Hasina regime, succumbed at various city hospitals between Thursday night and Friday. 

Eleven bodies, either burned or shot to death, meanwhile, still remained unidentified and unclaimed in the morgues of Dhaka Medical College Hospital and Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College.

Among those who succumbed to injuries on Thursday and Friday was Uzzal Hossain, 30, a mason from Muktarpur village in Chuadanga, who got burned over 66 per cent of his body in a hardware shop set on fire on August 5, died while undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital about 6:00am on Friday, said Shahbagh police sub-inspector Md Jabbar.

Another victim, Al-Amin Hossain, 27, from Barguna, who suffered burn injuries when an angry mob set fire to the building he renting at Amtoli on August 5, died at about 5:00am Friday at the Sheikh

Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, the police said, adding that the deceased’s family took the body without a post-mortem.

Asif, 26, from Begumganj upazila in Noakhali, who was shot in a rally of the Student Against Anti-Discrimination Movement in Sonaimuri on August 5 evening,  died while undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital at about 10:30pm on Thursday, the police added.

Another victim Lawyer Abul Kalam, 56, from Chandpur, who was shot during a clash in Cumilla on August 5, died while undergoing treatment at Popular Hospital in Dhaka at 7:24pm on Thursday, said his nephew Md Abdul Ahad.    

Dhaka Medical College morgue in-charge Ramu Chandra Das told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· at about 5:00pm on Friday that seven unidentified bodies were still in the morgue.

‘All of the unclaimed bodies are of men aged between 25 and 32, with two bodies completely burnt and the rest also rotten,’ he said, adding that he received 110 bodies between July 16 and August 9.

On Thursday, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College issued a letter to the media, stating that it has four unclaimed bodies, brought to the hospital between August 4 and 6, of individuals who died during the protests and unrest.

The hospital sent a public request to claim the bodies by August 18.

Among the bodies, one was completely burnt. 

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in a report on Friday said that 650 people were killed in between 16 July and 11 August over the student protest in Bangladesh.