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Of tears, groans & fury

Staff Correspondent
The hope of a new life beckoned Mohammad Yusuf and AbuTaher.
After months of preparations, the two farmers from Chakaria of Cox's Bazar started dreaming about better days ahead as they were all set to fly to Qatar for jobs last night.
Jamir Uddin and Rashidul Islam -also from Chakaria - had left home on Monday night with similar dreams. They too were to go to Qatar with Yusuf and Taher.
But the dreams are gone. An arson attack on their bus early yesterday left Yusuf and Taher dead while Rashidul is fighting for his life. Jamir escaped unhurt.
“I would not have let my father go, had I known this would be our final farewell,” howled Yusufs daughter Shamima Yasmin.
Fatema Begum, Yusufs widow, fainted frequently.
"Everything is ruined," wailed the mother of five.
Yusufs brother Mohammad Hanif was also on the bus to see his brother off at the airport. He is now writhing in pain at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Family members said Yusuf had mortgaged a piece of land and sold whatever gold ornaments the family had to pay for the Qatar trip and other arrangements. Taher, father of two, had borrowed money from his
relatives forthe trip.
Other victims of the arson attack left behind similar agonising tales.
Take Nuruzzaman Poplu, a contractor from Jessore. He had gone to Cox's Bazar for work four days ago. He had taken with him his wife Mita Mahfiiza and 15-year-old daughter MyshaTasnim, who insisted on going on a vacation.
One of the last photos Mysha posted on her Facebook page shows the three sitting on a coral rock on a beach. In the arson attack, Poplu and Mysha were burned alive. Mita survived, but suffered burns.
"Who knew it would be a death trip?" she said.
Venting his anger on politicians, Poplu's brother Kamruzzaman Dablu said, "We don't want such politics that takes lives of our dear ones."
On the bus was another mother, Asma Begum, 35. On Friday, she had gone to her in-law's house in Noakhali with her two sons — Shanto, 13, and Munna, 15. The next day, she took her eighth grader and ninth grader sons to Cox's Bazar on a holiday trip.
On the fateful night, she had been returning to her Narsingdi home from Cox's Bazar, family members said.
As the fire engulfed the bus, Munna jumped through the window, but Asma and Shanto could not make it. They were burned alive.
Zilqad Ahmed, 20, was all set to go to Saudi Arabia for a job. Before flying to the Middle East country, he went to Cox's Bazar with his three friends to have some fun.
But his trip to Saudi has become uncertain as he lay in severe pain at the DMCH with 20 percent burns in his face and the lower part of his body.
"We four friends were sitting on the fourth row of the bus, sleeping. I woke up to see myself on fire. I jumped through the window," Zilqad said.
He was lucky, as his friend Faruk Ahmed doused the flame on his body. In the process, however, Faruk suffered
2 percent burns in his hands.
Zilqad's uncle Abdul Aziz Sarker blamed the BNP for the situation.
"Burning people can never be politics. We want the violence to stop immediately," he told this correspondent at the DMCH.
For the family of ArifSikder, 26, the arson attack served a double blow. Second among four brothers, he went to Cox's Bazar to look for his younger brother, Sajib Sikder, who has been missing for the last one week.
The news of the launch capsize in the Bay of Bengal near Kutubdia had prompted Arif to go there, as his brother wished to go to Malaysia.
But he returned not only empty-handed but with 10 percent burns.
"Seeing violence on television, I told him to be careful," said his another brother, Sujon.
"My mother has almost stopped taking food after my brother went missing. After hearing this [Arifs] news, she fell sick. We did not dare to tell my elderly father about it yet," he added.
His brother-in-law Nazir Hossain Sikder said, "The two parties are doing politics and the innocents are paying the price. The ordinary people are dying every day because of them. ’
/Our Cox's Bazar and Narsingdi correspondents contributed to the story. ]