Autorickshaw driver Saber was the only earning member of his six-member family having two children and wife, and his elderly parents. He became father of a baby girl, Samia, only 17 days back. The couple has a four-year-old son named Samir.
Saber was struggling to come out of poverty and remained optimistic that he would succeed, his family members say.
His father Tofail Ahmed was discharged from Chittagong Medical College Hospital on February 28. He suffered a heart attack recently.
But Saber, 28, himself was admitted to the CMCH on March 4 night as he sustained 42% burn injuries. Miscreants had hurled petrol bombs at his vehicle in Charia Madrasa area of Hathazari in Chittagong.
Fighting for life for the last six days, Saber succumbed to his injuries around 9am yesterday at the ICU of burn and plastic surgery unit, on-duty doctor Dr Mishma Islam told the Dhaka Tribune.
Saber and day labourer Ranjit Nath, 30, were critically injured in the bomb attack. Ranjit suffered 80% burn injuries and died at the CMCH on March 6.
“My uncle used to work hard since he was the only breadwinner of the six-member family. But now he has gone beyond all sufferings,” Saber’s nephew Ashraful Alam Mamun told the Dhaka Tribune at the hospital.
Expressing concern over the fate of the children and other family members, Mamun said: “We are common people; we do not even understand politics. Now who will take charge of the family?”
Saber’s mother lost consciousness hearing about the demise of her son.
Sources at the burn unit said so far 27 persons had been admitted to the unit since the 20-party-led alliance’s blockade began enforcing blockade and hartal on January 6. Of them, three are undergoing treatment.