Angry protesters stormed the offices of Bangladesh’s two leading newspapers late on Thursday after news reached the country from Singapore of the death of a prominent activist in last year’s political uprising in Bangladesh.
Sharif Osman Hadi, a spokesperson for the Inqilab Moncho culture group, died in hospital in Singapore earlier in the evening, after losing a weeklong battle for his life.
He was shot on the streets of Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, last Friday while riding on a rickshaw. Two men on a motorbike followed Hadi and one shot him before fleeing the scene. After days of treatment in Dhaka, he was flown to Singapore in critical condition.
