<i>Jorina's dream stampeded</i>
Jorina wanted her daughters to be educated. After the death of her husband many years ago, finding no other means to survive Jorina began begging to make her dreams a reality.
Every month Jorina would go to her village in Lalmonirhat to give her daughters money that she saved from begging in the capital.
Her two school going daughters -- Mousumi Akhter, 14, and Maleka Akhater, 11, -- and 18-year-old mentally challenged son live in Lalmonirhat.
But Jorina's dreams to see her daughters educated came to an abrupt end when she became a victim of a stampede for zakat, Muslim religious charity based on one's wealth, in the capital's Fakirapool on Thursday evening.
“There is no one educated in our family. Jorina wanted to educate her daughters and to bear the expense, she had been begging for the last six to seven years,” said Rabeya Begum, Jorina's sister.
Another woman Helena Aktar, 50, died at her makeshift house in Motijheel after being injured in the stampede. Her daughter Laili, who was injured in the rush for Zakat, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The third woman who was killed in the rush was identified yesterday as Sahara Khatun, 65.
A case was filed in this connection against those giving zakat.
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