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July Uprising fighter dies in hospital
Greenwatch Desk
Death
2026-02-08, 7:53pm
Another fighter injured during the July–August uprising in 2024 died at a hospital in the capital on Sunday.
Thirty-two-year-old Ashraful succumbed to his injuries around 8:00 am while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital in Dhaka.
Md Abu Shadik (Kayem), Vice-President of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU), shared the information in a Facebook post in the afternoon.
According to the post, Ashraful was shot in Mirpur-10 on August 5, 2024, during the uprising.
He had been receiving medical treatment in Thailand for 14 months before being brought back to Bangladesh on February 4, 2026.
He was then admitted to the ICU of the National Institute of Neurosciences, where he later died, reports UNB.