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Rejected, he killed her

Staff Correspondent
For Saoda, the story is this: She was loved and killed by the same man.
The 18-year-old succumbed to the mortal injuries she suffered in an attack by her former lover yesterday.
But that was just yesterday. Before that the boy, Russell Mia, 20, had been in love with her for at least one year, or so sources at Barisal University where the two studied say.
Their relationship turned sour about a month ago when Russell proposed to the girl, upon which her parents rebuked him, said Prof Harunur Rashid, vice-chancellor of the university.
Following this, the girl had been trying to avoid him over the past one month. Infuriated, Russell hacked her with a knife in the back and neck around 8:30am on
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The first-year accounting student was brought to the intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital by air ambulance around 1:30pm where she succumbed to her injuries around 5:30pm.
Russell fled the scene immediately after the attack and has been missing since.
However, he made a phone call to Saoda's classmate Salma, around 1:35pm, and warned her against rallying support for the girl. He also allegedly threatened her with the same fate.
But how can it be that the man who loved her ended up killing her?
Dr Omar Rahman, a US board certified psychiatrist and formerly faculty at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, seems to have an answer.
"Adolescents find it difficult to deal with rejections," said Rahman, now vice-chancellor of Independent University (IUB) in Dhaka.
"They are of an age where they do not think clearly about the future, and therefore react to stress in bizarre ways, even if it is given by
close ones," he said, adding that this, however, did not justify the killing.
He also recom-mended that Russell's mental condition be assessed to find out the state of mind he was in to have reacted the way he did.
Russell's mother Renu Begum told this correspondent that locals criticised her and also her son after the girl's family rejected Russell's proposal.
"We are poor farmers and we rear goats. That is why Saoda's family turned down the proposal. People criticised us a lot for this," she said.
The university authorities expelled Russell from the university following the incident and police were trying to catch him.