Children among casualties of July Uprising | July Uprising

This news article, published by BSS (Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha) on September 10, 2025, documents the deaths of children and teenagers during Bangladesh's July Uprising of 2024, a political protest movement. The article profiles several individual victims, including six-year-olds Jabir Ibrahim and Riya Gop, seven-year-old Abdul Ahad, and teenagers Naima Sultana, Shafiq Uddni Ahmed Ahnaf, and Abdullah Al Mahin, detailing the circumstances of their deaths from gunfire during or near the protests. The article reports that according to Bangladesh's Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, 132 children and teenagers were killed in the uprising, along with 11 women, over 500 people were blinded, and nearly 20,000 were injured. Through personal accounts from grieving families, the piece emphasizes that many victims were killed in their homes or in ordinary circumstances, not directly participating in protests, underscoring the indiscriminate nature of the violence.

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