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Politics Go Violent

People stand by people

Zyma Islam and Shaheen Mollah
Pickets are killing and injuring innocents to enforce hartals for days. At times, it becomes evident that humanity is lost. But then we are taken aback to see that there are still some people who risk their lives in these circumstances to rescue those in danger.
Amjad Hossain Sumon, helper of a human hauler, is one such person. He brought danger on himself
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while trying to help others.
He had just dropped a hartal victim at National Institute of Traumatology and Rehabilitation and was on his way back when hartal supporters hurled a petrol bomb at the vehicle in front of Border Guard Bangladesh gate-2 in Azimpur. He sustained 18 percent burns.
Yesterday around 1:30pm, the screaming 18-year-old was wheeled into the emergency room of the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
He was incoherent with pain and was thrashing about on a stretcher.
"I swear I was only trying to help accident victims! That was why I was out on the streets. Why did they burn me?"
He was sitting beside the driver. The attackers threw a petrol bomb towards him. The driver could get out of the vehicle immediately but he could not as one of the miscreants blocked his way, said Sumon.
On Satmasjid Road in the capital, a passerby saved a 10-year-old child from a burning human hauler Sunday night.
" I was walking by with my friend when I saw a little hand out of a window and rushed to the vehicle to find a child trapped inside," said Mishor Khan, 28, an entrepreneur. He then
pulled the boy out through the window.
The boy, Shimul, had suffered 15 percent burns and was delirious with a fever yesterday.
He said that after the vehicle had been set ablaze the driver fled leaving him there helpless.
" I was helper of the vehicle. It was a hartal day and so I did not want to work. But the driver, Babul, persuaded me, saying he would take care of me if anything went wrong," said Shimul.
The attackers had pretended to be passengers and they ran away after torching the vehicle, he added.
Then there are people who will see someone get killed to save their lives.
Sagor Mahmud, a quality inspector of a garment factory, was travelling in a bus through Kalshi, Mirpur Sunday night, when an explosive flew in through the window by his side.
He went up in flames immediately.
"I beseeched the bus driver to stop but he did not. I fell down from my seat and since I sat beside the gate, I rolled off the bus. When my head hit the road, I blacked out," Sagor said yesterday.
None of the bus passengers had helped him. He was brought to DMCH by local people who found him on the street.