<i>Tragic!</i>
A nine-year-old boy died of suffocation as his mother's scarf, hanging from a wire at his South Tepakhola residence in Faridpur town, got wrapped around his neck on Wednesday night.
The deceased, Ikramul Hossain Shakib, was son of Salma Begum and Ikbal Hossain, an expatriate of Spain, and a class three student of Tarar Mela Ishan Memorial School in Faridpur town.
At around 7:30pm, Shakib was taking his dinner and watching television sitting on a wooden tool beside his mother who was serving him the food, said relatives and neighbours.
In the room, a pink silken scarf was hanging from a wire used for hanging clothes.
At one stage, Salma went to another room to bring some more rice for Shakib. After returning to the room with rice, she found Shakib fallen on the floor with the scarf wrapped around his neck. Crying for help, the mother fainted.
Shakib was later sent to Faridpur General Hospital where on duty doctor declared him dead.
"Shakib died of suffocation as he got strangled while playing with the scarf," neighbour Alamgir Miah quoted relatives as saying.
Visiting the house on Wednesday night, this correspondent found that hundreds of people from different areas gathered at the place after hearing the sad news. Many shed tears to see the pathetic sight.
He was laid to rest at Alipur graveyard in the town the same night.
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