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| Ganotantri Party President Nurul Islam succumbs to his injuries |
| 2008-12-05 |
| Ganotantri Party President and Awami League-led grand alliance nominated candidate Nurul Islam who had been suffering severe burn wounds, succumbed to his injuries at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) on Thursday afternoon. Nurul Islam who had filed nomination for contesting the upcoming parliament elections from Noakhali-1 constituency along with his son received serious burn injuries when their apartment house went up in flames on Tuesday night in the capital's Lalmatia area. Nurul Islam's son Tamohar Islam alias Puchi, 35, died on the spot while critically injured Nurul Islam was rushed to the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital from where he was referred to the CMH as his condition started deteriorating. Later, he had been kept on life support there. But yesterday he met the tragic end of his life at CMH at abut 4.30 pm. As soon as the death news spread among the leaders and activists of Awami League-led 14-party alliance, they held an emergency meeting at Awami League Dhamondi Party Office yesterday. Awami League Presidium Members Abur Razzak and Tofael Ahmed, Spokesman Syed Ashraful Islam and 14 party leaders Hassanul Haque Inu, Dilip Barua, Syed Zafar Sazzad, Anisul Islam and Wahedul Islam attended the meeting. Emerging from the meeting expressing strong condemnation Abdur Razzak told reporters that by launching sabotage Nurul Islam and his son Tomohor Islam were murdered. "Government will have to take the responsibility on its shoulders to find out the criminals who set ablaze the apartment house of Nurul Islam and killed him and his son. We want to tell the government that the pre-planned murder is against the spirit of democracy. Not only verbally saying so but the government will have to dig out the persons involved in such anti-state and subversive activities," Razzak said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |