Bangladesh: Elderly woman burnt in petrol bomb attack


A pentagenarian woman sustained serious burn injuries in the upper part of her body as unidentified assailants hurled petrol bomb at a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Shyampur WASA gate point under Kadamtoli police station in the capital on Friday evening.
The injured, Jahanara Khatun, was immediately rushed to burn unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Witnesses and the police said that the assailants hurled a petrol bomb on the CNG-run auto-rickshaw carrying Jahanara at about 7:15pm while he was returning home at Gendaria from her daughter’s house at Shyampur in the city.
They said that the locals and the police rescued her and rushed her to the hospital. (source