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Bravery redefined

Kid outwits killer posing as corpse

Staff Correspondent
Bravery comes in many forms, but what an eight-year-old boy showed Tuesday night is one of its kinds.
Rajibul Islam, a Class I student, outwitted a killer, posing as a corpse, withstanding the severe pain of a half-slit throat and severed tendons of the hands at Bashundhara Riverview in Keraniganj, a Dhaka suburb.
Police found Rajib buried in the ground excepting the head yesterday morning at a place too remote for anyone to hear his repeated cries for help on the previous night.
Palash, 24, a notorious goon of
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Sayadabad Bus Terminal, kidnapped Rajib from just outside their house at WASA colony in Demra Tuesday evening. Rajib's father Abdur Rashid, who lives by washing buses at the terminal, alleged Palash's motive was to punish him for refusing to pay up Tk 4,000 in tolls four months ago.
Rajib, now under treatment at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), said Palash approached him when he was playing with some other boys near their house at around 6:30pm.
Palash took the boy out of the sight of his friends, pointed a knife at him and asked him to put off his shirt, with which he blindfolded him. As Palash also gagged him with a handkerchief, he fainted.
"When I regained my sense, I found myself lying on the sand," Rajib went with the dreadful tale, "Soon he sat on my chest and started cutting my throat."
"I tried to fight, but failed. Nobody responded to my cries. I thought he will kill me and instantly I decided to pretend to be a corpse," he told the press in a weak voice lying on a DMCH bed.
Next morning, a rickshaw-puller passing by the place saw the boy trying desperately to get out of the sand and informed police.
Police sent him to Mitford Hospital, from where doctors shifted him to the DMCH.
A DMCH doctor said there are numerous four-inch by half-inch cuts in Rajib's throat. He said the knife used probably was blunt.
Rajib's father filed an attempt to murder case against Palash with Keraniganj Police Station.