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Pickets' delight, driver's plight

Staff Correspondent
Whims of some hartal pickets posing as passengers in the city appear to have plunged the future of a CNG-run three-wheeler driver's family into uncertainty.
Ameer Hossain, 40, the sole bread earner for his four-member family, suffered severe burns during yesterday's hartal, and is now under treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).
He took his three-wheeler out of the garage in Khilgaon at about 10:30am. A couple of minutes later, as he was just picking up speed along the road in city's Tilpapara area, he heard a call. He slowed down, hoping for the first trip of the day. "But soon I saw a youth running in from behind and throwing some liquid [from a bottle] at my car. It burst into flames before I could scramble out of it," Ameer said, lying on a hospital bed. "I could not save myself though I took off my shirt and trousers as soon as they caught fire."
On seeing the three-wheeler in flames, locals rushed to the spot, and took Ameer to the DMCH at about 11:00am.
The doctors at the DMCH said that at least 40 percent of Ameer's body was burnt. Injuries especially to the legs and the right hand are quite deep and they would take a thorough treatment to heal. They however could not say for sure how long the treatment should run.
Ameer, who hails from Jibon Nagar of Chuadanga district, has been living in Dhaka for the last eight years. He went back home two years ago with a hope of settling in the village, but having found no better source of income, returned to Dhaka in 2002.
Now yesterday's incident seems to have set off a chain of crises for his wife Aklima Khatun, 33, and their two daughters, over their living and education.
"What will we eat now, how shall I send my daughters to school?" Aklima wailed, talking to The Daily Star about the fears of an impending ordeal.
She said her husband would earn Tk 200 a day and nothing would be left after spending for food, house rent and school fees of the daughters.
"I have borrowed Tk 6,500 from my neighbours and already spent the amount for Ameer's treatment," she said adding that she is clueless about how to bear the rest of the treatment expenses.
"My priority obviously is to treat my husband, but where shall I get the money from? Will the doctors treat him free of cost, and even if they do, how am I going to run the family with two school-going daughters?" said Aklima with eyes brimming with tears.