A schoolgirl sustained grievous burn injuries after unknown miscreants threw acid on her in her sleep in a remote village in Lalmonirhat district early Monday.
The victim, Sajeda Akhter,11, was first taken to Patgram upazila health complex and shifted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital in the morning.
She was taken to Dhaka Monday afternoon after being referred to the BRAC-run Acid Survivors’ Foundation by doctors at RMCH as her condition deteriorated.
Sajeda, a student of class V at Hosnabad Barabari BRAC primary school and daughter of a poor day labourer, was sleeping in their shack at village Hosnabad in Patgram when the miscreants threw acid on her.
Her face and head were badly burnt in the attack, said Elina Parvin, a physician at Patgram upazila health complex.
The victim’s mother Merina Begum said she and her husband Jamal Hossain woke up hearing the screams of their daughter who was sleeping in her room in their shanty. She said unidentified miscreants had thrown acid on their daughter.
‘We are very poor…My husband is a day labourer. We have no enmity with anyone in the village. I don’t understand who threw acid on my daughter,’ she said.
Jamal Hossain said, Sajeda was being taken to Dhaka for treatment at BRAC-run Acid Survivors’ Foundation.
‘We cannot suspect anyone at the moment for the attack. I have informed Patgarm police of the incident,’ he told.
Patgram police officer-in-charge Farid Uddin said no suspects had yet been detained.
-With New Age input
