Magura BCL leader remanded for 7 days

A Magura court yesterday remanded Bangladesh Chhatra League leader Sen Suman for seven days over the shooting of a pregnant woman and an elderly man late last month.

Police wanted to interrogate him for 10 days but the senior judicial magistrate approved seven days, said Imaul Haque, officer-in-charge of the Detective Branch of police in Magura.

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Suman, vice president of Magura district BCL, was accused along with 15 other pro-Awami League activists for shooting eight month pregnant Nazma Khatun and elderly Momin Bhuiyan and hacking another man in Doyarpar area of Magura town on July 23.

They got shot during a factional clash of the ruling party's youth wing Awami Jubo League.

Momin, 65, died on the very night at Magura General Hospital, while Nazma and her bullet-hit daughter miraculously survived after a two hour caesarean section at the hospital.

Now the newborn, Suraiya, and her mother are under treatment in Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) separately, and doctors said they were improving.

The baby was shifted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of DMCH on July 26 and her mother on July 30 to feed her breast milk. Nazma is being treated in the gynaecology ward.

Dr Kaniz Hasina, assistant professor of paediatric surgery at DMC, said, "We are thinking to shift the baby to her mother at the general ward after the end of the neonatal period (28 days).

Otherwise it would be risky for the newborn, she added.

Meanwhile, Bacchu Bhuiyan, husband of Nazma, expressed dissatisfaction at the "sluggishness" of police in arresting the shooters, Azibor and Mohammad Ali, both Jubo League activists.

"We are worried as the main accused are still at large," he told The Daily Star.

 Eight people including Sumon were arrested so far, said police.