Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Two newspaper offices were burned and journalists struggled to escape during protests in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday.
The protests were in response to the shooting death of Sharif Osman Hadi, 32, who was a leader of the country's youth movement and who planned to run for parliament as an independent in the Feb. 12 elections. He had been shot in the head and was flown to a Singapore hospital. He was there for two weeks in critical condition before he died on Thursday.
Bangladesh recently convicted and sentenced to death its most recent prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, who is in hiding in India. Hadi was a leader of the protests that led to her ouster.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is running the country in the interim, condemned the violence and vowed "full justice."
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