Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral on Saturday of a leading Bangladeshi activist who died of gunshot wounds sustained in an attack in Dhaka earlier this month, as political tensions gripped the country ahead of elections.
Sharif Osman Hadi, who took part in last year’s political uprising that ended former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule, died in a hospital in Singapore on Thursday after being shot on 12 December in Dhaka.
