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Arson Attack on Bus

Another driver dies of burns

Staff Correspondent
A driver, Al Amin Mollah died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, battling for life for 15 days after he had suffered burns in an arson attack during an opposition-enforced blockade.
"What will happen to my family if I die?" The 28-year-old had asked a correspondent of The Daily Star when he visited the hospital a week ago.
Al Amin, of Bondan village in Gazipur, was the eldest among four siblings and the sole bread earner of his eight-member family.
While undergoing treatment, he could never brush aside the thought of his family's helplessness without him.
"Only people like me are falling prey to such political violence and our families are passing days in uncertainty," Al Alim, father of a two-year-old daughter, Afreen, had once said.
He sustained 25 percent burns on the face, parts of the chest and both hands on
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December 3 as blockaders torched a staff bus owned by a garment factory near Gazipur intersection.
He was recovering from his injuries, doctors said, but septicaemia, a serious condition in which infections spread through blood, pushed him towards death.
Moreover, he had inhalation injuries, said Partha Sankar Paul, resident surgeon at the burn unitofDMCH.
Over the last few days, he was shivering in fever, said the relatives who had been visiting him at the hospital.
"But this morning, he was in a good mood and even made light jokes with us," said his brother-in-law Manik.
As Al Amin's condition deteriorated, he was shifted to the intensive care unit where he died within around one and a half hours, Partha said.
Neither his wife nor any of his siblings came to DMCH to take the body home in fear of violence since the opposition was observing a fresh
72-hour blockade from Tuesday morning, Manik said.
Including Amin, 15 victims of political violence have died at the burn unit since October 26, as the BNP-led opposition began to enforce back-to-back hartals and blockades.
Helper of the stuff bus that Al Amin used to drive, Sulaiman also sustained 10 percent burns in the incident and was admitted to DMCH. He was released on December 11.
"Ustad [AL Amin| used to tell me about good and bad things, to go for something which is correct and avoid bad things," Sulaiman said by phone.
Meanwhile, Ahsanullah sustained 25 percent burns when pickets set a truck he was driving ablaze with gun powder on Tuesday night at Kadam Rasul in Sitakunda upazila.
Ahsanullah was coming to the capital.
"He wanted to make the
trip, though he had fears of violence on the way, only to earn some money," his relative Rahim said, adding that Ahsanullah is the sole breadearner of his family.
Rahim, who was on the roof of the truck at the time of the attack, said some 20 people had emerged all of a sudden from the dark of the night and set fire to the vehicle.
With burns on the face, shoulders, palms and lower portion of the body, he was admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH).
Hailing from Laxmipur, Ahsanullah has a nine-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son, Rahim said.
Ahsanullah was found groaning in pain at a corner of the burn unit and could hardly talk.
Mrinal Kanti Das, head of the bum unit, said Ahsanullah's condition was critical.
"The only good sign is that his respiratory organs have not been burnt," he added.