Latifur Rahman Kochi, a schoolteacher and BNP leader, succumbed to injuries sustained in a road accident in Bagha, Rajshahi. He was returning home from Mirganj Bazaar on his motorcycle when he collided with a stray dog and fell onto the road. He was critically injured and later died while undergoing treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. Kochi was previously an organizational secretary of the district's Tanti Dal and JASAS.