BOGURA, Sept 24, 2024 (BSS) –  Schoolboy Junaid Islam Ratul, who passed away on Monday at a hospital in Dhaka, was laid to entreat rest at the Namazgarh Anjuman-e Graveyard after his second namaj-e-janaza at the Government Mustafabiyya Aliya Madrasa ground in the district town today.

Schoolboy Junaid Islam Ratul, shot by police during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement, has died after being in hospital care for one-and-a-half month.

Ratul passed away early on Monday at the Neuroscience Hospital in Dhaka, confirmed his father Ziaur Rahman.

His first namaj-e-janaza was held on Central Shaheed Minar premises in Dhaka yesterday.

The body of Ratul was taken to Ghanpara of the district at 7am from Dhaka.

The boy was shot in the neighbourhood of Barogola in Bogura on August 5 evening. He was a sixth grader at Path Public School in Bogura.

“Ratul took part in the protests staged by the students and local people. 

When a procession was moving towards Bogura Sadar Police Station, police opened fire indiscriminately and Ratul received multiple bullet wounds in head and other parts of his body,” Ziaur said.

“He was admitted to the Neuroscience Hospital in the capital as his condition deteriorated. He was under treatment at the hospital for one and a half month,” he added. 

District BNP President Rezaul Karim Badsha, Jamaat-e-Islami Central Working Council Member Principal Shahabuddin, District BNP Acting General Secretary former MP Alhaj Mosharraf Hossain, City Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Principal Abidur Rahman Sohel, Municipality Councilor Mehdi Hasan Himu, Amir Hamza from the family, Faisal Ahmed, Imam Hossain Imon, members of the Rajshahi Divisional Delegation of Anti-discrimination Student Movement, Bogura District Chhatra Dal president and general secretary and people from various professions, among others,  participated in the  namaj-e-janaza.