Acid attack on couple in capital
A couple fell victim to acid attack allegedly by some of the woman's former colleagues at Khilgaon in the capital yesterday.
The victims, Sheikh Asadul Haque, 38, and his wife Lailun Nahar, 33, were undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
Asadul told The Daily Star that the criminals threw acid from a microbus onto them while they were going to their East Goran residence riding a motorbike at around 3:30pm.
"When I turned my motorbike to Khilgaon from Shahjahanpur near the flyover, a microbus overtook us and I heard my wife's screaming due to burning sensation," he added.
Hearing their cry, locals rushed them to a local hospital and later shifted them to the DMCH.
Sources said about 10 per cent of Nahar's body has been burnt while Asadul got one per cent burn injuries.
Nahar, who worked as a sales representative at a pharmaceutical company, claimed that she saw around five of her former colleagues in the microbus.
Her husband is a sales representative of another pharmaceutical company.
Nahar said some of her former senior colleagues tried to violate her on March 26 this year and she filed a case against them with a Dhaka court on April 2.
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