July Warrior killed in road crash in capital

Md Abu Jobayer, an active student participant of the July Uprising, was killed in a road crash in the capital’s Mohammadpur area early Tuesday.

According to family sources, a speeding truck hit the rickshaw he was riding on near the Bangladesh University campus.

Two of his friends in the same rickshaw suffered minor injuries, but Jobayer sustained critical wounds that led to his death following admission at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital.

He was later buried at the family graveyard in Birganj upazila, Dinajpur on Tuesday afternoon.

Before the accident, Jobayer and his two friends were travelling to another friend’s house on the rickshaw.

Jobayer was a student of law at the Manarat International University. He was also known as a popular social media influencer, debater and social activist.

He used to live at a maternal aunt’s residence in the Dhaka Uddyan area of Mohammadpur to continue his studies.