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Staff Correspondent

All was going well for Shiuly Begum. A serene family life with her bus driver husband and four children, this was all that she had hoped for.

But then everything changed, all because a bus decided to ply on the wrong side three years ago.

On April 3, 2018, while going to Mirpur from the family’s Bashabo home, Shiuly’s husband Mizan Kazi was hit by the bus near Purana Paltan. “My husband, who was a bus driver himself, died under one,” a sobbing Shiuly told a programme of Nirapad Sarak Chai at Jatiya Press Club yesterday.

Losing the family’s only breadwinner, Shiuly had to take the difficult decision to leave their rented flat and go back to her village in Mymensingh, even if this put a halt to the studies of two of her children.

“I don’t know whether my five-year-old son will start his schooling. I don’t know if I can afford it,” she said. In the last three years, she has gone to various ministries and offices. But while justice remained a far cry, she could not even obtain a minimum sum of compensation.