Nasib Hasan Riyan, the second of three children of Golam Razzak and Sammi Akter, had a constant drive to stand out, in clothes or in action. He had a dream of becoming a pilot.
Riyan鈥檚 liveliness used to panic others in the house as he would go on trips outside Dhaka without telling his parents anything. Yet, his maturity helped to ease family tension in disputes, his father said on October 25.
Three bullets hit the 17-year-old spirited boy in the face and the chest on August 5, when he went out for celebrations after the overthrow of the Awami League government that day.
Nasib, who took part in the protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations, went to Ganabhaban, where the deposed prime minister lived, with his elder brother Nuhash Hasan Rafin and several of his friends.
The student protests, which began on July 1, escalated into a mass uprising later that month, ultimately toppling the Awami League government.
Back from Ganabhaban, they gathered on the Ring Road at Shyamali, at a short distance from Nasib鈥檚 house. A group of police personnel suddenly approached them in the afternoon, firing indiscriminately, said Saikat Francis Gomes, a resident of the area who was standing near by.
鈥楾he police personnel raised their hands at one point when several people requested with them not to fire. A procession was approaching from the opposite direction,鈥� Saikat said.
鈥榃e urged the marchers not to clash with the police. But when a child threw a stone at the police, they began firing again. Nasib fell down.鈥�
A quarter of an hour later, when the police moved away, Saikat, Nasib鈥檚 brother who ran into an alley when the police fired, and several others carried Nasib to Alliance Hospital.
He was then taken to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital where he was pronounced dead in the evening.
Eight to nine people were lying wounded on the ground, he said. Later that day, a mob beat to death two police personnel and a leader of the Chhatra League who were hiding in a nearby building, he added.
The police fired in self-defence when the station house was attacked, said a subinspector, who was transferred to the Adabar police on October 1, as he had heard.
Nasib鈥檚 father filed a complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal on August 29, accusing 52 people, including the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on charges of genocide.
The Directorate General of Health Services on September 24 said that after a preliminary investigation, it had listed 708 people having died in the protests and uprising.