Maulana

Maulana Hamid ul-Haq, a prominent cleric and the influential head of the school, is among the dead.

Haq, 57, was the son of the influential Pakistani cleric Maulana Sami ul-Haq, widely known as the "Father of the Taliban".

"If women want to play football, they should cover their entire body, and they can play only in front of female spectators. Men cannot watch them play," Maulana Ashraf Ali, the leader of the Islami Andolan Bangladesh in the Taraganj area of Rangpur, told the BBC.

"The crowd became uncontrollable," he told BBC Hindi while waiting outside the mortuary at Delhi's Maulana Azad Medical College.

Her road out of the village was not through a state-run school, but Rahmani30, a free coaching school for underprivileged Muslim students set up by Maulana Wali Rahmani, a Muslim former politician and academician, in 2008.