Educational institutions across the country will mourn today the deaths of 44 schoolboys in a truck plunge at Mirsarai in Chittagong on Monday.
The education ministry on Tuesday directed teachers, students, officials and staff of the institutions to wear black badges and pray for the eternal peace of the departed souls, said an official handout.
Black flags flew over all houses at Mayani and Maghadia of Mirsarai on Tuesday as the villagers mourned the schoolboys who died in the highway tragedy, one of the worst in recent memory.
There was a heart-rending scene in the area as mourners gathered at Abu Torab Bahumukhi High School ground in the morning. Students of the school sobbed as they recalled memories of the dead. Some of the students fainted in grief and were taken to hospital.
Families of the deceased, students, teachers and locals, wearing black badges, gathered on the premises where a rally was organised as part of the three-day mourning announced by the local administration.
The minister for education Nurul Islam Nahid and minister for industries Dilip Barua attended the programme and tried to
console the mourners.
The ministers could not hold tears as they spoke to a crowd of mourners at Abu Torab High School ground.
'The president is shocked, the prime minister is shocked and we, the entire nation, mourn the tragic deaths of so many of our children in a single accident,' said the ministers said extending their sympathies to the families, teachers, students and the people of Mirsarai.
'The whole nation shares your grief. You will get all necessary assistance from government,' said Nahid.
The ministers said a memorial plaque would be set up for the deceased students apart from providing Tk 35 thousand to each of the families of the victims as assistance.
They also visited families of a number of victims and consoled them.
The Mirsarai upazila nirbahi officer, Sayed Kutub, said all educational institutions, government and non-government offices had been directed to fly the national flag at half-mast to mourn the deceased.
The 44 victims, mostly students of Abu Torab High School, Abu Torab Primary School and Abu Torab Fazil Madrasha, were returning home after watching a football match at Mirsarai stadium, when the tragedy struck.
Zafar Sadek, headmaster of Abu Torab High School, told reporters that more than half of the deceased were students of his school and a number of them were very promising students.
Source : New Age
No comments:
Post a Comment