Dhaka, Dec 14 (The New Age): A 10-year boy is fighting for life in hospital bed at Dhaka Medical
College Hospital after being shot in a fire exchange between the police
and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir at Fakirerpul
in the capital on Friday.
Shanto Islam, a Class III student of
Agarpara primary school at Rupganj in Narayanganj, came to Dhaka to
visit his aunt at Fakirerpul.
Since Shanto came to Dhaka, his father
Md Sobhan Mia asked him to assist at the makeshift cigarette and tea
shop Sobhan ran in front of Motijheel Ideal School and College.
At
about 1:15pm on Friday, Sobhan asked Shanto to go to his aunt’s house
and have lunch. Sobhan also gave Shnato a bowl and asked him to bring
meal for Sobhan.
As Shanto was heading to his aunt’s house through a
Fakirerpul by-lane, Jamaat and Shibir men went on rampage and fought
with the police in the area.
Shanto was caught in the exchange of fire and fell on the road sustaining injuries in birdshots.
He was rushed to Dhaka Medical Hospital and he was still unconscious till the report was filed at 8:30pm.
After primary medical tests and CT scan, doctors found that there were numbers of birdshots at his head, back and shoulder.
Sobhan
Mia became puzzled with the incident. ‘What a curse and wrath on our
family! We even cannot afford daily livelihood, how would we be able to
manage the expanses of treatment,’ Sobhan added.
A 10-year schoolboy
Alamgir Rahman Sumon was caught in the crossfire and killed during a
gunfight between the police and activists of the BNP and Jamaat in
Sirajganj sadar on Tuesday, the fourth day of the latest spell of
blockade the BNP-led alliance enforced across the country.
Scores of children fell victim to political violence in 2013, with at least 20 dying and many others still fighting for life.
At
least 6 out of the 20 have died since November 8, when the BNP-led
opposition alliance started enforcing general strikes and blockades of
road, railway and waterways.