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4 more kids hospitalised

2 burnt the day before cling on to life

Star Report
Four more kids were injured in separate explosions yesterday, taking the number of children caught up in hartal violence to 13 in
the last 11 days.
Surma, nine, and Lal Mia, eight, of Chittagong, got ensnared in a blast when they picked up a crude bomb mistaking it for a ball. The incident happened at the Railway
Colony of Jhautala in the port city around 12:30pm.
In the capital, Ananda Ghosh, a class ten student, and Akash Ghosh, a class nine student, were wounded when a cocktail hit them as the got
down from a rickshaw around 10:15pm near Shantinagar Bazar. The rickshaw puller was also injured in the incident.
All the three were taken to the
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Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for treatment.
Over the last few days, five kids have been wounded as they picked up cocktails thrown carelessly by pickets, taking them for playthings that exploded in their hands.
In yesterday's case, Surma thought it was a tennis ball, wrapped in red tape. She attempted to remove the tape while her friend Lal Mia looked on curiously. The "toy” exploded to smithereens, leaving the two in pain.
Surma suffered splinter injuries to her
hands, legs and head, while Lal Mia was only slightly injured.
Dr Motaher Hossain of the burn unit of Chittagong Medical College Hospital, where the two were taken, said their physical injuries might be minor, but the incident would leave a lasting trauma on their minds.
Talking to The Daily Star, Surma's father said: "Being poor, I cannot buy toys for my children, so they play with whatever they get around them. There are many children playing here... if it were not my daughter it would have been some other kids."
Meanwhile, the 14-year-old Monir, who suffered severe burns on the first day of the
hartal, is still writhing in pain in the intensive care unit of the DMCH.
Doctors say the hope of his survival is thin, and his death will be slow and painful as his whole body (95 percent) was burnt.
It happened on the Dhaka-Gazipur highway when pickets set fire to the covered van, owned by is father, he was in. The Gazipur boy had come to Dhaka with his father and was on way home when the fatal attack came.
His father, Ramjan Ali, refuses to believe that these may be his last few hours with his son. "I hope he will not walk out of the hospital blind."
Monir's mother was informed of the incident yesterday, but she is unable to travel to Dhaka because of the hartal, family members said.
This means she may not get the chance to see her son alive.
Also at the DMCH burn unit is 8-year-old Sumi, who too was similarly burnt when pickets set alight the bus she was in on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Gazipur police yesterday filed a case in connection with the arson attack on Monir, accusing 84 leaders and activists of the BNP and Jamaat. District Jubo Dal leader Shawkat Hossain Babu is the prime accused.