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Shot by BSF, 9th grader may lose eyesight

Staff Correspondent
On the afternoon of April 30, Russell Mia went to bring his cattle home and collect some grass from the bordering area in Fulbari upazila of Kurigram.
Several members of the Indian Border Security Force suddenly appeared from a maize field in Indian territory around 3:15pm. They were coming towards Russell, 14.
Panicked, the ninth grader jumped in the
"But the moment I raised my head, a BSF man shot at my face," Russell toldThe Daily Staryesterday.
He may lose his vision due to multiple pellet injuries on both eyes, said doctors at the National Institute of Ophthalmology (NIO) in the capital, where he is being treated.
Golam Mostafa, director of the NIO, said chances of his regaining vision in the right eye was slim.
Dharala river and took a dip, thinking he could escape the imminent danger this way.
"His left eye has also been damaged. Several
splinters were found in both of his eyes, he said. Russell's brother Rubel Mia, who sat the HSC examination form a local college this year, said his brother had 40 pellet injury marks on the face, including two in his right eye and one in the left.
When shot with rubber bullets from PAG (pump action gun), Russell was 20 yards inside Bangladesh territory, said Lt Col Golam Morshed, Commanding Officer 15 BGB Battalion.
Contacted last night, Ramakant Gupta, first secretary (consular) of the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, said, "1 am not aware of the incident. *
After being shot, Russell tried to swim ashore, but he soon fainted, relatives said.
Two local youths, who were nearby, pulled him out of the water and took him to Fulbari Upazila Health
Complex with the help of locals.
Russell was later shifted to a private hospital in Rangpur. On May 5, he was brought to the NIO at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital.
His father Hanif Uddin is a farmer, sometimes working on his 1.5 bigha land and at other times working as a day labourer.
Although Hanif struggles to run his family with his meagre income, he takes care of his four children's education well. His eldest daughter has completed her master's while another daughter completed her graduation.
After the shooting, the family has already spent Tk 1.6 lakh for Russell's treatment.
"My father mortgaged 30 decimals of our land, sold two cows and borrowed some money from neighbours,” Rubel said, adding that they had no other means to arrange