Nimtoli Tragedy
<i>PM further consoles the three girls </i>
It was again the gracious company of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that eased the agony of the three fire surviving girls, who lost everything in Nimtoli inferno on June 3 and were later married off through arrangements made by the Ganobhaban.
Saturday was the first Eid-ul-Fitr after Ratna, Runa and Asma lost their near and dear ones in the fire. The day was supposed to be very painful for them like many other victims of the country's most devastating fire that claimed at least 121 lives.
But the gifts, company and motherly affection of the prime minister helped them forget the sorrows, as the head of the government invited the three girls along with their husbands to the Ganobhaban on Monday.
“We were very happy to meet her. We forgot, to a great extent, the pain of losing our mothers. She talked to us like a mother, she inquired about our well-being the way a mother usually does,” the girls, said to be the prime minister's daughters, told the news agency.
They met the prime minister in the evening and exchanged Eid greetings and gifts.
Earlier, the three girls told the news agency about their painful feelings on the Eid day without their mothers and other near ones.
But the company of the prime minister eased their mental sufferings, they said.
“I have, in fact, mixed feelings of joy and sorrow. I have the pain of losing my mother, mother-in-law, aunt and cousins and the joy of getting the love and affection of the prime minister. I missed my mother very much on the Eid day,” said Runa.
“Our mother (prime minister) earlier sent Eid gifts for us,” she said and added that they were very glad to receive the gifts, including dresses and food items for themselves and their husbands, from the prime minister.
Runa's husband Jamil said their two families lost 41 of their members in the fire. Their memories were haunting him again and again, he said.
He offered fateha at the grave of his mother and visited the house of the 'Ukil baba' in the morning, but he spent the whole day in a depressed mood.
Ratna said the memories of her mother was haunting her most.
“But I found comfort thinking about our prime minister mother. We made a hand-made prayer-mat for her. We also gifted her with a saree and cover of the holy Quran.”
Asma-Alamgir couple again expressed their gratitude to the prime minister for arranging their marriage after the devastating fire killed Asma's mother, grandmother and niece.
They said Eid is always joyful. “But in this Eid, we have both pains and joys.”
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