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Attack on Covered Van in Ctg

Injured helper dies

Staff Correspondent
Yet another man loses his life to the ongoing mindless political violence.
Md Mahabub Alam, 30, helper of a covered van, succumbed to his injuries early yesterday at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH).
Hailing from Amtali upazila of Barguna, Mahabub sustained injuries on Wednesday night when pickets hurled brickbats targeting his van on Dhaka-Chittagong highway atLalpool in Feni.
Hit with brick chunks and shards of a broken windowpane, he was rushed to a local hospital in Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong.
As his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to CMCH where doctors declared him dead at around 2:45am, said his neighbour Mohammad Sohel.
The attack also left driver Monir Hossain with minor injuries.
Meanwhile, the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital still wears a look of horror and dismay with burn victims writhing in pain.
Munira Begum, 20, was seen battling with life in the female High Dependency Unit of the burn unit.
She sustained 25 percent injuries with her face severely burnt in Meherpur on November 11 during an opposition-enforced hartal.
" It is better to die than live like this. I have been admitted here |at the burn unit] only thinking of my one and a half years old daughter. Otherwise, I would rather rot to death in Meherpur. My future is ruined in the interest of others," she grieved. Not only Munira, the faces of all the four ICU patients were heavily burnt and had blackened, saw this reporter while visiting them yesterday.
They also sustained critical injuries to their respiratory organs which, according to Resident Surgeon of the burn unit Partha Shankar Paul, might become lifethreatening for the victims.
Al-Amin, a bus driver whose vehicle was set alight in Gazipur on December 3, was found shivering in fever.
His relatives attending him at the hospital said Al-Amin had been running high temperature frequently over the last couple of days.
Kamal Hossain, 35, who sustained 25 percent injuries on November 10 in the capital while travelling in a human haulier, shared the horror of the incident that, according to him, took only a minute or two.
"I was sitting behind the driver's seat and suddenly saw fire engulfing the vehicle. I jumped through the window-like tiny opening. I found other passengers lying on the ground around me and writhing in pain. Later, 1 came to know that the passenger seated next to me had died," he said.
Thirteen-year-old Shimul, a human haulier helper who sustained burns in Dhanmondi, was lying on the bed next to Kamal. He said he had begged pickets to spare him when they were about to set fire to the vehicle.
"Instead, they shut the door and set fire to the laguna [human haulier] while I was inside," he said.