Family members mourn the passing of auto-rickshaw driver Saber Ahmed at Chittagong Medical College Hospital yesterday. Saber suffered burns in a petrol bomb attack on March 4. Photo: Star The driver of a CNG-run three-wheeler lost his battle for life yesterday, six days after he was burned in a petrol bomb attack at Hathazari upazila in Chittagong. Thirty-two-year-old Saber Ahmed, who suffered 45
percent burns on March 4, died at the burn unit of Chittagong Medical College Hospital around 8:30am, reports our Chittagong Correspondent. With the latest death, 86 people have so far been killed, mostly in mindless arson attacks, since the BNP-led 20-party alliance called a nationwide indefinite blockade on January 5. Of the victims, 69 had no links to politics whatsoever. Saber, the only earning member of his family, along with a passenger suffered burns after alleged hartal supporters hurled a petrol bomb at his auto-rickshaw near Chariya Madrasa. He was returning to his Domdoma home in Fatikchhari taking a passenger, Ranjit Nath, from Hathazari upazila headquarters. Ranjit, a day labourer, died the next day at CMCH, while Saber was struggling for life with badly damaged respiratory organs. Just 17 days ago, Saber and his wife were blessed with a daughter, Samiya. His wife Kamrunnesa was wailing over the future of their kids. Advertisement "Oh Allah! Who will look after my children now? Whom they will call father now?" she said at the burn unit. Saber had planned to arrange a small family party on the occasion of their daughter's birth and went out for work on that fateful day. "What was my fault? Why is Allah so cruel to us?" howled Kamrunnesa, mother of two, as she fainted frequently. "His [Saber's] parents are aged and we don't know how the family will survive," said Md Panshu Miyan, a relative. "We do not know about politics. We come out of home for our livelihood. Is it our fault?" he asked. Except the death, no significant incident of violence took place in the country yesterday. The BNP-led combine relaxed its hartal for 12 hours. It has been enforcing continuous spell of strike since February 1 with a break on the weekends. The education ministry has meanwhile postponed today's Dakhil examinations following the extension of hartal. The revised schedule for the exam would be announced later, a press release of the ministry said. The postponed SSC and equivalent exams of March 3 and 4 would be held from 9:00am to 12:00noon on March 20 and from 10:00am to 1:00pm on March 21 respectively. On the other side, the other postponed exams of February 12 and March 1 would be held from 9:00am to 12:00noon on March 13 and from 10:00am to 1:00pm on March 14 respectively, the release added. In police drives, arrest of BNP and Jamaat activists and recovery of explosives continued in some districts yesterday. The police arrested 82 people including 19 BNP-Jamaat activists in Satkhira, 12 BNP-Jamaat men at Rangpur town and adjacent Pirgachha upazila and 10 Jamaat-Shibir men at Daudkandi. The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel detained a Jamaat rokon, Mohammad Imran alias Mithu, 40, with "four crude bombs and five petrol bombs" from KB Aman Ali Road under Chandgaon Police Station in Chittagong city on Monday night.
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