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NARAYANGANJ, Oct 27, 2025 (BSS) - Gazi Salauddin, a schoolteacher from 
Siddhirganj who joined the historic July 2024 mass uprising in solidarity 
with the protesting students, passed away on Sunday night after a long and 
painful struggle with his injuries. He was 48.

He breathed his last on Sunday around 10:00pm while undergoing treatment at 
the 300-bed hospital in Narayanganj, according to family sources. 

Salauddin was critically wounded when police opened fire on demonstrators 
during the July movement. A splinter from a bullet struck his throat, leaving 
him with life-threatening injuries that doctors described as too risky to 
operate on.

Since then, he had lived with constant pain and breathing difficulties - a 
silent reminder of the price he paid for standing by the students.

"My father was an honest and selfless man. He could not sit at home when he 
saw students being killed in the streets. He gave his life for the country," 
said his son Ratul, struggling to hold back tears.

During the uprising, Salauddin lost sight in his right eye and suffered 
partial blindness in the other. His injuries ended his teaching career, and 
he lived in hardship for months before the July Shaheed Smriti Foundation 
helped him set up a small grocery shop in Siddhirganj. 
Even then, his spirit remained unbroken - he often told neighbors he was 
proud to have stood with the youth "in their fight for a fair and free 
Bangladesh."

As news of his death spread, locals gathered to pay tribute to the man they 
called a "July warrior" - a teacher who had turned his courage into an act of 
defiance and his suffering into a symbol of sacrifice.