Mosharraf Hossain, the only breadwinner of a six-member family, succumbed yesterday to burns he suffered when miscreants torched a truck in Natore on Wednesday during hartal hours.
Mosharraf died at Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital at about 1:30am.
Mango trader Mosharraf and two others were injured when a band of six to seven persons set fire to a mango-laden truck on Natore-Dhaka highway at the district headquarters around 11:30pm Wednesday, the first day of the 48-hour shutdown called by BNP and its allies.
Mosharraf, son Ayub Ali of village Goshal Shikdarkandi under Jajira upazila in Shariatpur, lived at Hazaribagh area with his family members for the sake of business.
His mother Meherjan told The Daily Star that of her five children one daughter was married off. She was living with other four.
As her husband, a banana vendor, is seriously ill, the responsibility of the family fell on Mosharraf.
She does not know how she would bear educational expenses of her three children and treatment of her husband.
On Tuesday Mosharraf left for Rajshahi with about Tk 1 lakh to buy mangoes to sell those in the capital.
He was returning in the truck on Wednesday night.
On Thursday, Mosharraf told his mother that the gang threw some liquid on the truck. In no time the vehicle caught fire.
Before he jumped off the truck, his body was seriously burnt.
Mosharraf's family members now demand support from the government. They did not get any help from anybody while Mosharraf was in hospital with 95 percent burns, they said.
The mangoes he bought have been lost and they have already borrowed Tk 50,000 to bear the expenses of his treatment.
They also demanded punishment to the perpetrators of the crime.
Police on Thursday arrested five BNP activists -- Rafiqul Islam, Alam Hossain, Masud Rana and Mamunur Rashid and Mamun Hossain -- for their alleged involvement in the arson.
Truck owner Rafiqul Islam lodged a case with Natore Police Station accusing 50 people in this connection on Thursday noon, our Natore Correspondent adds.
Abdullah-Al-Mamun, officer-in-charge of the police station, said, they are preparing to pray to the court to register it as a murder case.
Source : The Daily Star
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