Mehedi Hasan, a Dhaka Times journalist, was killed on July 18 after being shot while covering a clash between law enforcement officials and anti-government protesters in theBangladeshi.capital's southern Jatra Bari area.
On the same day, Nadia Sharmeen, a reporter for Ekattor TV, was wounded by police gunfire.
Attacks on media professionals particularly rose in July amid massive and intense student-led anti-government demonstrations that led to the ouster of then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Hundreds were killed in the unrest that began as a protest over government jobs and morphed into a large-scale revolt against Hasina's increasingly autocratic administration. Hasina eventually fled to India.
Local media report that eight journalists have been killed in the South Asian country so far this year and hundreds wounded, the highest figure over the past decade.
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