Anti-discrimination Student Movement’s Kashem dies of wounds in Gazipur attack

Seventeen-year-old Md Kashem, a member of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement, has succumbed to the wounds he suffered while attempting to stop an attack on the home of former Liberation War affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque in Gazipur.

He died on Wednesday afternoon while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

“Kashem died at 3pm on Wednesday while receiving treatment at the ICU,” said Brig Gen Md Asaduzzaman, the director of the hospital.

Kashem hailed from Gazipur’s Boardbazar area and was the son of the deceased Jamal Hajji.

Several members of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement went to stop an attack on the home of former minister and Gazipur Awami League President Mozammel after an attack was reported at his residence in the Dhirasram Dakhinkhan area of the city at 9pm on Friday.

Anti-discrimination Student Movement Convener Hasnat Abdullah announced Kashem’s death in a Facebook post.

“Kashem, injured by Awami criminals in an attack in Gazipur, has been martyred,” he wrote. “This brother of mine is the first one martyred by counter-revolutionaries.”