Dhaka, April 12 -- Ali Reza, a student who recently passed Fazil exams from a madrasa, left home to buy Iftar in the Feroz Shah Colony area of Chattogram on Apr 5. His father Korban Ali, a dentist, also came out to save Reza from a gang of unruly youths. The young men hit Korban in the head with a stone, leaving him critically injured. He died in hospital care early morning on Wednesday, a day before Eid-ul-Fitr."We, the two brothers, never went anywhere without Baba after offering Eid prayers together. He is no more. It feels like we've lost the roof over our heads. You tell me, how can we be well?" Reza said when asked how they were a day after the Eid.

"We always spent our Eid at home in the city. This time we took him to our village ...