TDS Desk:

Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Mohammad Tazul Islam said on Monday that they have started working to gather information on the number of dead during the recent student-led mass protests.

The Chief Prosecutor said they were sending letters to district commissioners, superintendents of police, civil surgeons, authorities of public and private hospitals, large graveyards and university vice-chancellors.

He said, “Through letters we are requesting hospital authorities to give information about how many people went to hospitals, took medication and how many died.

“We are also sending letters to the authorities of large graveyards. Letters were also sent to the vice-chancellors of universities to know what happened there,” he added.