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Rickshaw-puller hit by crude bomb

Staff Correspondent
A rickshaw-puller suffered severe eye injuries when a crude bomb hurled by pro-blockade pickets hit him in the capital's Kaptanbazar yesterday, the third day of the opposition's 131 -hour countrywide blockade.
The victim, Abdul Halim, 30, fell from his
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rickshaw, as the crude bomb hit his right eye around 2:00pm.
"All of a sudden, I found myself lying on the road. I could not see anything as blood was spurting from my eye," Halim told The Daily Star.
Locals immediately took him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Sitting next to Halim at the DMCH, his wife Asma Begum said, "A seven-member family depends on him. What will we do if he goes blind?"
Mallika Nasrin, medical officer at the hospital, said Halim's right eye was badly damaged by splinters. She, however, said there was a good chance that the eye would be saved.
In Chittagong, three people, including a schoolgirl, were injured in attacks by blockad-ers.
Five-year-old Sumaiya Akhter Sadia was hit in the head by a cocktail while she was going to school with her mother by a rickshaw at Signal Colony around 8:30am.
The incident happened when their rickshaw was moving past a procession of block-aders.
In another incident, blockaders threw petrol bombs at a truck at Sitakunda upazila around 2.00pm, leaving its driver Md Yasin of Patiya injured.
In an arson attack on a CNG-run autorickshaw at Battali, its driver Abdul Aziz, 50, suffered burns on more than 35 percent of his body.
He was admitted to the burn unit of Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
At the DMCH's burn unit, the arson victims expressed anger at the attacks on innocent people and demanded punishment to those responsible.
Lying on a bed at the burn unit, Abdur Razzak, victim of the November 28 arson attack on a bus at Shahbagh, said, "I do not want help. I want justice. I want to see those attackers punished."
Razzak, a car driver, demanded compensation for the earnings he lost for being confined to the hospital bed.
"My eldest daughter just got admitted to college. The second one is about to sit for the Secondary School Certificate exams. If I do not get any compensation, they will have to discontinue their studies," he said.
The driver of the bus, Mahbub, who suffered burns on 30 percent of his body, demanded compensation from both the ruling and the opposition parties.
"Both parties must give compensations, since they both are fighting. They are equally responsible for our plight," he said.
Another arson victim Shamim, who was on the same bus, said he had no hope of getting justice.
"There is no justice for the poor. I might have to wait my entire life for justice or compensation. I will seek justice from Allah," said Shamim, a salesman, who suffered burns on 25 percent of his body.