DHAKA: Protests have erupted across multiple college campuses and streets of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, following the brutal killing of a scrap metal trader, Lal Chand alias Sohag, in broad daylight near the Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford) Hospital on July 9.
According to local media reports, the 39-year-old trader was beaten and stoned to death with chunks of concrete by a group of assailants near the hospital's third gate around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, allegedly for refusing to pay extortion money.
The killing, caught on camera and widely circulated on social media, triggered a wave of outrage.