DHAKA, Sept 2, 2024 (BSS)- Mobile mechanic Sohel Miah was shot dead in front of his residence in the city’s Shanir Akhra area on July 20, which has left his family distraught.
 
Thirty-five-year-old Sohel was residing at a rented house in the Shanir Akhra area with his wife Ayesha Akhter and three-and-a-half-year-old son Hazrat. He was running a shop named ‘Sohel Telecom’ in RS Tower Market in that area.
 
Sohel was son of Suruj Miah and Hasna Ara of Alhari Durgapur village of Mathbari Union of Trishal Upazila of Mymensigh district. He was the eldest among two brothers and two sisters.
 
Sohel used to sell and repair various mobile phone parts. His younger brother Jewel Mia was also working with him.
 
The whole family of Sohel Mia is heartbroken and speechless at his tragic death. The family is very anxious as to how they will survive in the coming days. Sohel always helped the family of his parents and younger brother.
 
Talking to BSS, Sohel’s younger brother Jewel Mia said his brother was shot in front of his house in the Shanir Akhra area.
 
“On that day, my brother came to my house around 11am and informed us that the market where his shop is located was closed,” he said.
 
Sohel’s parents, who also live in Shanir Akhra with his younger brother Jewel Mia, came to his house on the day and brought jackfruits and mangoes with them. Later, Sohel bought a bag of rice from a shop in front of his house.
 
“My brother told us that the situation in the country was not good. But he left the house around 11:30am on that day,” Jewel said, adding, his brother was reportedly shot by the members of law enforcing agencies around 5:30pm in front of his residence.
 
“Later, we went to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and found my brother dead. Our entire family suffered destruction just in one shot,” he said.
 
Later, Sohel was buried at his village graveyard in Alhari Durgapur in Trishal Upazila of Mymensigh district on July 22.
 
Noting that his elder brother Sohel grew him and his two sisters up, Jewel said their age-old father was so sick and unable to earn.
 
“Therefore, my brother was the only bread and butter earner of the whole family,” he added.
 
“I was working at my brother’s shop. But after the death of my brother, his wife sold out everything in the shop and went to her father’s house along with her son. Now, I have started pulling a rickshaw without finding any other way,” Jewel said.

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Simultaneously, at the instructions of the previous government, the law enforcement agencies went on a tougher action against the students.
 
As a result, Abu Sayeed, a student of the English Department of Begum Rokeya University, was brutally killed by indiscriminate police firing on July 16 in Rangpur while a total of six people died across the country on that day.
 
Following this incident, people from all walks of life joined the student movement under the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. Gradually, this movement turned into a student-people mass uprising with one point demand of the falling of Awami League government.
 
As part of suppressing the student movement, cadres of Awami League and its associated bodies and the law enforcement agencies brutally killed hundreds of people across the country.
 
In this movement, the law enforcement agency members were also killed by angry crowds. Thousands of people were seriously injured in this movement and are being treated in different hospitals across the country.
 
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign from the post of Prime Minister and flee the country in face of the ‘Bangla Basanta', also dubbed as ‘Red Revolution’ pioneered by Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and largely participated by different democratic political parties and people of different walks of life and professions.
 
Following the successful student-people mass uprising, the parliament was dissolved and an interim government was formed headed by Nobel laureate economist Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus as its chief adviser.
 
Different organizations are now staging demonstrations demanding trial of those who were involved in various irregularities, corruption, mismanagement, murder, genocide and enforce disappearances during ousted AL government.