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Attacks on People

Two more die

Woman burnt by petrol bomb

Staff Correspondent
Another arson victim, who suffered 64 percent burns, died of his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, bringing the death toll from arson up to 15 since last month.
Trucker Mehedi Hasan, 30, died at 9:20am, sources at the DMCH said.
Pro-blockade activists stopped his vehicle in Sadar Upazila of Faridpur and hurled a petrol bomb at him on Saturday last, the first day of the opposition's six-day blockade.
"He was almost home when he was set ablaze, he had less than a kilometre to go," said his sobbing mother Shaheda while talking to The Daily Star.
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Mehedi had dropped off goods and was returning home with the truck, she added.
"A couple of picketers hailed his truck. He stopped not knowing it would cost him his life. They attacked his vehicle with sticks and broke its glass. As he tried to pull away, they hurled a petrol bomb at him," said the mother.
His wife Kohinoor, 21, became unconscious unable to deal with his death. Mehedi left behind two daughters - one is five years old and the other, one and a half years.
"Mehedi's respiratory tract had been burnt. It caused him enormous pain every time he breathed. But for the last 24 hours before his death he was even incapable of taking short breaths, and kept gasping for air," his brother-in-law Abdur Razzak told The Daily Star.
Meanwhile, Shoeb Ahmed, 25, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver, who had suffered a fatal road accident while being chased by picketers in Sy 1 het, died of his injuries at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital around 7:30am yesterday.
Our Sylhet correspondent quoting Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Moglabazar Police Station, said on Thursday, a group of picketers chased Shoeb while he was driving his vehicle on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Fenchuganj.
Shoeb sustained serious injuries as his three-wheeler overturned and hit a roadside structure.
Around 2,000 locals put up barricades on Chandipul-Jalalpur road for around two hours yesterday, demanding immediate arrest of the people responsible for Shoeb's death.
It was cleared at 3:00pm as local police officials assured them of taking steps in this regard.
Meanwhile, Jahanara Begum, 50, got burnt when criminals hurled a petrol bomb at the Easybike she was a passenger of at Shyampur in the capital last night.
The battery-run three-wheeler flipped following the attack and most of the passengers got out in time but her sari had caught fire, the victim told The Daily Star at DMCH.
DMCH sources said 27 percent of her body was burnt.
Officer-in-Charge Mazharul Islam of Kadamtoli Police Station told The Daily Star the woman was injured in the petrol bomb attack but they have not been able to arrest the perpetrators.
A DMCH autopsy report yesterday revealed that Hasan, the seventeen year old bus helper who suffered burn injuries when blockaders set fire inside his bus at Jatrabari on Thursday, died mainly because he was unable to bear the excruciating pain anymore.
"Over 90 percent of his body was burnt, and the pain in every bit of his skin was terrible. His body went into shock to relieve him of the pain," Sohel Mahmud, assistant professor of the forensic department, said.
The boy's mother, a resident of Ghittagong, had started for the capital shortly after her son was set ablaze. But her hope to see him alive shattered as she could not reach the hospital before his death.
"When I saw the body, there was hardly any way to recognise him as my son. The fire had completely blackened my fair skinned boy. I recognised him from the only body part - his toes - which was not burnt," Hasina Begum, 35, told The Daily Star.
Hasina could not take her son back home, fearing she could get caught up in the blockade scheduled to start at 6:00am today.
" I started right before the blockade ended and it took me around 12 hours to reach here because of long tailbacks on the road. With Friday being the only day left free from blockade, there may be more traffic jams," said a sobbing Hasina.
"His body has already started to smell. He might not be able to take the journey to Ghittagong," she added.
Hasina chose to burry her son at Azimpur Graveyard in die capital, far away from his home.