Burnt student dies at DMCH
A university student, who had set himself on fire on Saturday in the capital's Tejgaon Industrial Area, succumbed to his injuries early yesterday at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
Victim Monirul Islam Shraban, 22, a sixth semester student of BBA in Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, had been admitted to the burn unit of DMCH with 55 percent of his face, neck and chest burned. He died around 12:10am.
According to police and victim's friends, Shraban tried to kill himself at the house of a schoolgirl, who refused his romantic advances.
Shraban, hailing from Khulna, used to stay in a university dormitory in Kunipara.
Shraban's roommate Sabbir Ahmed Kajal said the girls' house was adjacent to their dormitory. Shraban had fallen in love with her and tried to establish a romantic relationship.
A few days back the girl's mother called Shraban to their house and asked him to give up his romantic advances. He may have committed suicide because of the rejection, he said.
“The night before the incident we had sehri together and I went to sleep. In the morning the watchman of the girl's building came to the dormitory and informed me of the suicide attempt,” Kajal said.
Shraban was very emotional. He also took about 30 sleeping pills over a trifling matter a few months back, Kajal said.
Shraban was buried at his village in Khulna.
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