Bangladesh student leader shot in head in brutal daylight attack as pre-election violence escalates

Bangladesh’s political volatility deepened on Monday after a prominent student leader was shot in the head by unidentified assailants in the southern city of Khulna.

Muhammad Motaleb Sikdar, a central organiser of the National Citizen Party’s labour wing, was attacked at around 11.45am in Sonadanga, according to Bangladeshi media.