Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- Seventeen-year-old Md Kashem, a member of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement, has succumbed to the wounds he suffered while attempting to stop an attack on the home of former Liberation War affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque in Gazipur.

He died on Wednesday afternoon while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

"Kashem died at 3pm on Wednesday while receiving treatment at the ICU," said Brig Gen Md Asaduzzaman, the director of the hospital.

Kashem hailed from Gazipur's Boardbazar area and was the son of the deceased Jamal Hajji.

Several members of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement went to stop an attack on the home of former minister and Gazipur Awami League President Mozammel after an ...