Boy dies as fleeing muggers hurl bomb
A schoolboy was killed in a bomb explosion as fleeing muggers hurled the bomb at Shyampur in the capital last night.
The deceased is Rabiul Islam Sunny, 8, son of Rashedul Islam, a rickshaw-van puller at East Dhulaipar in Shyampur.
A witness, Mohammad Khokon Mia, told The Daily Star that Sunny, along with his father, was in front of their house around 10:00pm when a mugging victim cried for help.
Rashedul and some other locals rushed in and tried to catch the muggers, he added.
Shaympur Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abul Kalam Azad said the muggers, getting chased, exploded a handmade bomb to make their way clear which hit the minor boy.
Sunny was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 11:00pm where doctors declared him dead.
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