Narayanganj, Jul 30 (UNB): It has been confirmed that seventeen people have died due to violence related to the quota protests in Narayanganj. The information was gathered from various hospitals and through conversations with the injured and the families of the deceased.
 
Among the deceased are a police inspector, an SSC candidate, students, workers, artisans, and businessmen.
 
Notably, Inspector Masud Parvez (52) of the PBI, who was from Ishwarganj, Mymensingh, was killed during an attack on protesters in Signboard, Narayanganj.
 
Family sources reported that he was severely injured in the attack and died while receiving treatment at Rajarbagh Police Hospital. He is one of three police officers to have been killed during the protests nationwide.
 
Additionally, a 7-year-old girl named Riya Gope was killed by gunfire while playing on the roof of her house in Noyamati, Narayanganj city. In Siddhirganj's Painadi New Colony, Sumaiya Akhter Sumy (20), a housewife, was shot dead while on her veranda.
 
Both Riya and Sumee are understood to have died from stray bullets that were not meant to harm them specifically.
 
Arafat Hossain Akash (15), an SSC candidate, was also killed in the Siddhirganj clashes. In Kazi Para on the Narayanganj-Dhaka Link Road, businessman Abdur Rahman (55) was shot and killed.
 
Other victims include Milan (38), Rakib (20), Sajib (20), Syed Mohammad Mustafa Kamal Raju (36), Mehdi (20), Shaheen (23), Alauddin (35), Hriday (25), Sajol (22), Minarul Islam (25), Selim Mondol (29), Salam Biswas, and Shahel (21).
 
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