It was July 19 – the day 28-year-old Monir Hossain was shot dead during the quota reform protests in Dhaka and a string of further tragedies started befalling the ill-fated family.

The sudden twitches of his left hand and his attempts to speak in too weak a voice are just about the only signs that 16-year-old Raiyan Ahmed is still alive.

Says mother of Munna who was shot dead in Dhanmondi

Says mother of Raihan, 17, who died of bullet wounds

Says mother of 22-year-old Rabbi who died after being shot in Narayanganj

Asks sister of 19-year-old Soikot who was shot in Mohammadpur

Mehedi dies of bullet wounds while covering news in Jatrabari

20-year-old Sumaiya dies after being shot; family believes it came from a helicopter

Nightguard Imran, 26, dies of bullet wounds in Dhaka

Life had just begun for 19-year-old Jisan Ahmed, a small-time vendor who supplied water to shops in his neighbourhood from his battery-run cycle-van.

On July 19, journalist Tahir Zaman Priyo was fatally shot in the head as law enforcers opened fire to disperse quota reform protesters in the Science Lab area of the capital. .Priyo's friends, present at the protest, saw him fall as the shots rang out. .Despite trying to reach him se

The entire neighbourhood of Nayamati in Narayanganj had been praying for the recovery of Riya Gope for the last five days

Mohammad Faruk, 32, an employee at a furniture shop in Shulakbahar, Chattogram, was fatally shot as Jubo League and Chhatra League clashed with quota reform protesters on July 16.

Samudra's mother recalls his last words after the 17-year-old died of bullet injuries

He was taken to Chittagong Medical College Hospital first, then to a local private hospital and finally to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after his condition kept deteriorating.

He succumbed to his wounds on the way to Enam Medical College Hospital.

Mamun, from Jalial village in Noakhali's Binodpur, was fatally shot on the Mohakhali flyover while heading back to his home from his aunt's residence in Shaheenbag, Dhaka.

It was around 5:30pm on July 18. Khalid Hasan, a first-year student of Ideal College in Dhanmondi, was heading back to his Amligola home in Lalbagh after offering Asr prayers at the Azimpur Government Staff Quarter mosque.