Staff Reporter:
Police have launched a combing operation to detain the unidentified youths who shot Dhaka-8 constituency candidate Osman Hadi in the capital’s Bijoynagar area on Friday afternoon.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner SM Sazzat Ali confirmed the development when briefing reporters.
Osman Hadi is a spokesperson of Inqilab Moncho, a group that claims to represent last year’s uprising participants and their political goals. He would contest the 12 February general elections as an independent candidate from Dhaka-8.
After the Friday prayers, he was riding a rickshaw in Bijoynagar as part of his election campaign. At one point, unidentified youths on two motorbikes intercepted the rickshaw and shot in the head of Osman Hadi.
Hadi was rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where he remains in coma as of Friday evening.
