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Published : 21 Jul 2025, 05:45 PM
Mahid Hasan Arian, 11, is one of the worst-affected victims undergoing treatment at the emergency department of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.
Outside the ward, his mother Monika Akhter Aakhi is inconsolable.
Sat, she cried out, “Allah, bring my son back to me.”
“The boy's entire body is burnt,” she said.
“He went to school at 7:45 in the morning. He was supposed to leave at 1:30pm, then he had coaching from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. I had fed my son in the morning, and now this happened.”
The family lives near the school in Diabari. Upon hearing of the crash, they rushed to the campus, the crash site, where they found Mahid badly burned.
He was first taken to Bangladesh Medical College before being transferred to the burns institute.
Shayan, a seventh-grade student, sustained burns across most of his body, according to his aunt Rubina Akhter.
“The healthy boy left the house in the morning, and is now lying in the hospital,” said Rubina, a resident of Uttara Sector 10.
Outside the emergency department, Jhorna Akhter, mother of third-grader Junaid Hasan, sobbed uncontrollably. Her son has been moved to the ICU.
“Classes would have been over after a while and my son would come home,” said Jhorna, who lives in Naya Nagar.
“And now my son is in the ICU.”
Sayyum Khan, an 11th-grade student, said: “The juniors’ shift starts in the morning. I was in class at the time of the incident. Then I heard a loud noise and saw a fire. The situation was bad. Within a while, army members arrived and started the rescue work. Then the fire service arrived.”
“One of the mothers turned to me and said ‘Son, hold my daughter, her two hands are burned’. Later we brought her to the hospital.”
Dr Shawon Bin Rahman, resident surgeon at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, said, “So far, we have received 60 patients at the emergency department.”
