After Hadi, one other Bangladesh pupil chief shot in head

Unidentified gunmen on Monday (December 22, 2025) shot within the head Motaleb Shikder, a second chief of Bangladesh’s violent student-led 2004 rebellion.

The assault occurred in southwestern Khulna metropolis, days after the killing of outstanding youth chief Sharif Osman Hadi.

“The Khulna Division head of NCP (Nationwide Citizen Occasion) and central coordinator of the get together’s employees entrance, Motaleb Shikder, was shot a couple of minutes in the past,” NCP’s joint principal coordinator Mahmuda Mitu stated in a Fb submit.

Mitu, a health care provider, stated Shikder was rushed to Khulna Medical Faculty Hospital in a vital situation.

The Kaler Kantha newspaper, quoting hospital sources, stated Shikder was shot on the left facet of his head, and he was bleeding profusely when he was delivered to the power, the place the medical doctors began emergency therapy.

The assault got here days after Hadi, a outstanding chief of the student-led protests final yr that led to the ouster of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League authorities, was shot within the head on December 12 by masked gunmen at an election marketing campaign in central Dhaka’s Bijoynagar space.

The 32-year-old Inqilab Mancha spokesperson died whereas present process therapy in Singapore on Thursday (December 18). Hadi was a candidate for the scheduled February 12 normal elections.

The interim authorities of Muhammad Yunus staged a nationwide mourning for Hadi’s death on Saturday and stated no stone could be left unturned to trace down his killers as violence erupted in Dhaka and different main cities afresh over the assault and subsequent demise.

Faisal Karim Masud’s dad and mom, spouse and a feminine good friend of the prime suspect have been arrested by police, however stated they have been uncertain about his present whereabouts.

After Monday’s (December 22) clandestine assault on Shikder in Khulna metropolis’s Majid Sarani space, police stated they have been but at darkish in regards to the assault perpetrators or motive however launched an “instant manhunt” for his or her arrest.

Native police station chief Animesh Mondal, nonetheless, knowledgeable reporters that Khulna Medical Faculty Hospital (KMCH) authorities now shifted Shikder to its Metropolis Imaging Centre to pinpoint the state of his damage.