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Cricketer sets girlfriend on fire

Staff Correspondent
A female student of Ahsanullah University is fighting for life at a burn hospital in the city, after her boyfriend allegedly poured petrol and set her on fire.
Monika Afroz Mimi 22, a third year student of architecture, was set on fire in front of her hostel at West Razabazar on Saturday afternoon.
According to the witnesses, Mimi went out of her hostel, Mother Teresa Homes, 47/7 West Razabazar, and returned at about 2:00pm along with her boyfriend Shafiuddin Babu, a discarded national cricketer. Babu's friend Arif was accompanying them in the same rickshaw.
Mimi asked the caretaker of the hostel, Khodabox, to call Shila, a boarder. "Shila came out with a handbag, talked to them and handed over the bag," Khodabox told The Daily Star at the hostel yesterday afternoon. He said Mimi and the two young men left the hostel premises walking.
About five to seven minutes later, I heard someone screaming nearby. I rushed to the spot, about 50 yards from the hostel, and found Mimi was burning, said Khodabox who
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with a few others present on the spot doused the flames with sands.
They took her inside the hostel with most parts of her body badly burnt. Khodabox then called the superintendent of the hostel, Aklima Begum and took Mimi to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. As her condition deteriorated, she was later shifted to the City Hospital at Panthapath.
Doctors said that about 75 percent of her body including the face were badly burnt. Her lungs and eyes were also affected.
Several people, who witnessed the incident, said it was not an accident. "The two youths poured petrol on Mimi's body, set her on fire and fled the scene immediately," they added.
Mimi's elder brother Captain AS Masud Parvez, who came to the city from Rangpur on Sunday, blamed Babu and Arif for the incident. "I came to know about the affair of my sister with Babu a couple of months ago. Mimi herself told me that she liked a cricketer," said a wailing Parvez at the City Hospital.
Maruf Morshed Masum, younger brother of Mimi said Babu called him over phone about 11 hours after the incident and told that Mimi had committed suicide, pouring petrol on her body.
Babu 29, a member of the Bangladesh team that took part in the 1999 World Cup in England, played his last match in the National League for Chittagong at the Fatullah Stadium on Thursday.
But since Friday the strike bowler went missing. He failed to turn up for Saturday's regular practice session.
"We only learnt today that his name was linked to the tragic incident in which a young woman was allegedly set on fire", said former national captain Minhazul Abedin.
"Whether he has done it or not, it has definitely brought shame on all cricketers," said the veteran allrounder.
Sources said Mimi engaged herself with Babu several months ago, and Babu used to visit the hostel to meet her. She was trying to manage Babu, after her elder brother asked her
to forget the relationship and concentrate on her studies.
Mimi had been staying at the hostel for six months.
Captain Parvez filed a case with the Tejgaon Police Station Sunday accusing Babu and Arif of attempting to kill his sister. Both Babu and Arif have been missing since theincident.
Police raided several places to arrest them, as they believe that the two are still hiding in the city. SubInspector Jahangir Hossain is investigating the case.
A container was recovered from the spot, which, according to police, was filled with petrol.