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Survived but shell-shocked

Arun Bikash Dey, Pranabesh Chakraborty, Shahadat Hossain and Emran Hossain
He thought he was going to die. He tried his best to crawl out, but it appeared to be an uphill task The
muddy water trickled through his nose and mouth making it impossible for him to move. At one stage, he lost his strength and fell unconscious.
Habib Ullah, the first boy of class VII at Abu Torab
Bahumukhi High School, is one of those who survived Monday's tragic road accident in Chittagong that claimed 44 lives, 42 of them school and college students.
Along with his friends he got on the hired truck to come home after watching a football match.
The truck carrying about 70 students flipped over into a roadside ditch near Mayani Bridge in Mirsarai.
Locals rescued Habib some 15 minutes after the crash and took him to the house of a local doctor, his mother Hasina Begum told The Daily Star yesterday.
The family found him there after a frantic search.
He was undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) last night.
"Mother, I can't breathe, take me to a hospital,” groaned Habib, clasping his mother's hands. Dr Yasin, in whose house he was taken, gave him some medicines and an injection but his
condition remained unchanged.
He was then rushed to Shefa Insan Hospital at Bariar Hat where doctors gave him oxygen and saline, but failed to improve his condition.
The family admitted him to the CMCH yesterday morning.
Maswood Ahmed, in-charge of the ICU, said Habib is suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome. However, he is out of danger.
Including Habib, some thirty people, most of them students, narrowly escaped from the tragic accident but not anytime soon are they going to recover from their physical and mental trauma.
Borhan, another class VII student of the same school, also survived accident. His whole body except the left leg was free. The leg was stuck in the muddy ditch bed and the railing of the truck Only a few inches under the water, Borhan felt it was miles to conquer.
He tried to gather strength to give it a last try. Someone
trapped under the truck pulled by his stuck leg at that moment.
“At last, I managed to bring my nose out of the water to breath,” Borhan said.
“I saw some legs struggling outside as some of my friends' bodies were also stuck under the vehicle,” he added.
Imran Hossain, a class X student of the school who was trapped inside the cage of the truck, tried to move in vain.
“I could not hold for long. Thinking that I was going to die, I just gave in to the water and mud entering my mouth,” he said.
He was lucky, as someone caught him by the hair and pushed him out.
Almost dead by then, Imran found the rescuer to be his cousin, Najimuddin.
Mosleh Uddin, another student, was receiving treatment at the CMCH. His condition was also improving.
"There was no way to get out of the truck It buried us into the mud and forced many to drown," said Mithu
Chandra Nath, another survivor.
"I saw many people running to and fro and heard shouting and crying before I lost my sense," said Mithu, who was undergoing treatment at Surgescope Hospital in the port city.
He lost his cousin Rupam Chandra Nath in the accident.
Three other schoolboys — Najmul Huda, Palash Chakraborty, and Kajal Nath -- are also being treated at the ICU of the hospital.
Six more were at the ICU of Centre Point Hospital.
One of them is 18-year-old Raihan. His father Nurul Afsar said Raihan is his only hope.
"My only dream was to bring him up properly,” said Nurul, a CNG-run autorickshawdriver.
Raihan's condition was stated to be critical.
It may be mentioned that all the survivors were first taken to CMCH but some of them were shifted to private hospitals due to bed shortage.