<i>College girl injured as stalker throws acid</i>
A college girl sustained burn injuries as a stalker threw acid on her in Nandail upazila of the district on Tuesday.
The victim, Ferdous Ara Lipi, 20, is a first year honours student at Mominunnessa Government Mohila College in the district town.
She is undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.
Lipi, daughter of Abdus Sattar of Niviaghata village in the upazila, came under attack by Shafiqul Islam, 22, son of Hafiz Uddin of the village, while she was going to her college in the morning.
Police quoted family sources as saying that Shafiq, also a first year honours student at Government Gurudayal College in Kishoreganj, had been stalking Lipi for long and recently he proposed love that she refused.
When Lipi boarded a human hauler to go to Atharabari Bazar to catch a Mymensingh-bound bus at around 8:00am on Tuesday, Shafiqul also boarded the same vehicle and locked in an altercation with Lipi.
At one stage, Shafiq threw acid on Lipi's face and jumped off the vehicle, said Khondaker Zahidul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Nandail Police Station.
The other passengers of the human hauler chased Shafiq to catch him, but he managed to escape. Lipi's family filed a case with Nandail Police Station the same day.
Deputy Commissioner Lokman Hossain Miah and Police Superintendent Golam Kibria visited Lipi at MMCH yesterday. They ordered immediate arrest of the culprit.
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