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People in their thousands swarm the Central Shaheed Minar area in the capital on August 3 where the leaders of the Student Movement Against Discrimination demanded the resignation of the then prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and her government for killing students and ordinary people during the July protests. | ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· photo

Bangladesh’s interim government on Sunday published a preliminary list of people who died during the student-led mass uprising in July and August.

Earlier on September 24, the government published a draft list of 708 names on the website of the Health Services Division under health and family welfare ministry.


The names and identities of the dead were collected from different public and private hospitals.

The list can be accessed through https://medical-info.dghs.gov.bd/

Quoting the available public reports by media and the protest movement itself, UN rights body said between 16 July and 11 August, more than 600 people were killed, according the report titled ‘Preliminary Analysis of Recent Protests and Unrest in Bangladesh.’

Of these, nearly 400 deaths were reported from 16 July to 4 August, while around 250 people were reportedly killed following the new wave of protests between 5 and 6 August.