Daily labourers hit a bad patch nowadays as they are prone to pickets’ attack almost every day during the ongoing political violence.
At least nine such people were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with splinter injuries in the capital from Wednesday night to till filing this report at 11:30pm yesterday.
Yesterday around 10am, three people were admitted to DMCH around 10:30am after they fell victim to pickets’ crude bomb blast at Bangshal in old Dhaka.
The three are Mohammad Sohagh, 22, a tailor, Azim, 25, another tailor and Mohammad Abdur Rahman, 60.
The current political stalemate made them pay a heavy price.
Some have already succumbed to their injuries from petrol bomb attack while many of them are fighting for life in hospitals.
The breadwinners’ hospitalisation are nothing but adding to the miseries of their families as the latter struggle to foot the medical bill.
“My brother is the only earning member of our three-member family as my father is ill and mother died a couple of years ago,” Sheuli Akter, sister of Mohammad Rubel, a blockade victim who is now at National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedic Rehabilitation. Rubel, 28, a carpenter by profession, fell victim to crude bomb attack in Panthapath area Wednesday night. He was on his way home in South Jatrabari.
Soon after he reached Panthapath intersection, five crude bombs blasted and splinters hit him in the head and other parts of his body.
Sheuli added that they were taking her brother home as doctors suggested that Rubel should rest after the removal of splinters from his body.
My father was tensed up as there were no other breadwinners for the family, said she.
During the crude bomb attack, five others also received splinter injuries in Panthapath Wednesday night.
Of the injured were Abidur Rahman, 48, and his colleague Mohammad Khokon, 35. The splinters hit the duo in the heads and left sides of their body.
Besides, Rickshaw driver Mohammad Rabiul, 30, Daud Khan, 40 and a salesman Gopal Chandra, 30, also got hurt in the bomb attack.
Talking with the Dhaka Tribune, Khokon, muttered that doctors removed splinters following an operation in the early hours of Thursday.
“Still I feel so much pain, he said, adding that God had been kind to me that I got back my life,” he said.