Like all other days Lima, a three-and-a-half-year-old girl, sporting a butterfly hair band, went out of her house for play around 8am yesterday but a twist of fate tore her life apart.
As she noticed a red ball-like object lying in the dust in front of their house at 494/1 of East Kafrul area of the capital she went over to it to check it out.
When the girl picked it up, the crude bomb wrapped in red tapes went off with a big bang severing her right wrist.
She is now suffering at National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor).
Abul Khayer, a residence of the area, witnessed the incident as he was passing by the area. He took the child to Al-Helal Hospital. “As soon as the girl picked the red ball-like object it exploded. Another similar crude bomb was found lying abandoned in the same area,” he said.
Doctors after primary treatment referred the child to Nitor as her injury was grievous. She also received injury to her left hand.
Sohagi, mother of the victim and a worker of Lalia Fashion, said like every other days I gave her a bath and fed her. “My daughter cajoled me into staying at home rather than going to work,” she said blaming herself for the incident.
Al-Amin, father of the victim and driver at a private company, said every day the couple go out for work, keeping the girl at their sister’s house who lives nearby. “On Tuesday, the accident happened just after we went out at 8am.”
Dr Shamimul Kabir, the on-duty doctor of Nitor, said Lima’s right hand was totally displaced. “We are giving our treatment.”
Confirming the incident, Mehedi Hasan, Sub-Inspector of Kafrul Police Station, told the Dhaka Tribune that on information they rushed to the spot and recovered an abandoned crude bomb from the area.
This might have been an act of pickets who left the two crude bombs in the area, he added.