Bangladesh to airlift shot uprising leader to S'pore for treatment

Attackers on Dec 12 shot Mr Sharif Osman Hadi, a national election candidate, as he left a mosque in Dhaka, wounding him in the ear.

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Bangladesh’s interim government said it would fly a leader of the 2024 uprising, a candidate in an upcoming election, for treatment in Singapore after he was critically wounded in an assassination attempt.

Masked attackers shot student leader Sharif Osman Hadi on Dec 12 as he left a mosque in the capital Dhaka, wounding him in the ear.

The shooting took place one day after the authorities announced a date for the first election since the student-led uprising that overthrew the autocratic government of Sheikh Hasina.

In a statement late on Dec 14, the interim government said it will pay for Mr Hadi to “be flown to Singapore for better treatment”, and that an “air ambulance and a team of doctors are on standby”.

Mr Hadi is a senior leader of the student protest group Inqilab Mancha and has been an outspoken critic of India - Hasina’s old ally and where the ousted prime minister remains in self-imposed exile.