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Left alone, without sunshine

Our Correspondent, Barisal
Rina dreamt of a rare moment of hajrpiness. There will be friends, relatives and a lot of fun. she thought. "It’s long I haven't visited my uncle's house," she muttered.
Rina along with her three-year-old daughter Habsa and 24 relatives boarded the MV Nasrin-1 at Sadarghat in Dhaka, with a spring in her step.
The invitation to attend her uncle MA Matin's wedding at Tarashganj in Lalmohon brought sunshine to her 'virtually caged-life* in Dhaka city.
When she came out of her residence near the Chun Mia Housing Society in Mohammadpur, she visualized an unbroken spell of joy and enjoyment unfolding before her.
"Who knew the journey would turn so wretched? Who knew the river would devour my entire family and friends? So merciless is the Meghna!" she cried at Lalmohon, frailfromrepeatedfits and daze.
All the relatives went missing when the overcrowded launch they were travelling on capsized in the Meghna after being sucked into a whirlpool.
The three-deck Nasrin-1 set out from Sadarghat at 6:45pm, and pushed ahead by waters flowing swiftly into the Bay of Bengal, was progressing fast towards its destination.
As the craft approached Chandpur, Rina along with her sister-in-law, Maiful, went to the rooftop to watch stars peeping through the rain-laden clouds of monsoon. Most of others were sleeping on the second floor deck.
Chandpur marks the confluence of three rivers — the Meghna, the Padma and the Dakatia — and the converging currents there create a whirlpool effect, especially when the waters are in.
"It was about 10:45pm. I felt a sudden pull. The launch listed to one side. Then I witnessed the horror, the rear of the launch going under water," she said.
There was no official word on how many passengers were on board, but survivors said the vessel was carrying at least 750 people, many more than the licensed capacity, plus a huge cargo.
Rina does not know how long she swam in the rain-swollen, fierce-flowing, treacherous Meghna. Fishermen pulled her from the choppy waters. But she refused to leave Lalmohon and kept a vigil on
the river in the hope of finding out her daughter and dear and near ones.
Traumatized by the shock and worn out by days of anxious wait on the riverbank at Chandpur, she was taken to Lalmohon yesterday with 169 others rescued.
Her missing list of close relatives include sister Swapna and Ruma, Swapna's one and half-year-old son, Ruma's sons Munna and Akash, cousins Milon, Mizan, Mahin, Surma, Jamal and Lima, brother-in-law Monir, aunts Rahima and Sakhina, uncle Kutti and his wife Kohinoor.
Her uncle, Matin, a lecturer of Azharuddin Degree College at Gazaria, postponed the wedding and he is now trawling the Meghna with hundreds of others, looking for missingrelatives.
"I cannot bear the shock of losing allmy dear and near ones," Rina said, before melting into another burst of tears. The illness due to unbearable shock is refusing to leave her since the ordeal.
Relatives at Lalmohon were also wailing for local Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Shajahan Kuddus and his daughter Mousumi, a madrassah student.
Kuddus went to Dhaka to bring Mousumi back home and marrying her off. They boarded the launch. Not to b e found again.