Petrol bomb victim laid to rest in Faridpur

The charred body of truck helper Sohag Biswas, 19 who was the victim of hurling a petrol bomb Sunday in Barisal district was brought here in the afternoon and was laid to rest in village Sankarpasha under Nagarkanda upazilla of this district.
According to the injured truck driver Ripon Mia who is now under treatment at Faridpur Medical College and Hospital (FMCH) when he along with Sohag was coming to Faridpur in the morning with his truck three blockaders hurled a petrol bomb causing the instant death of Sohag.Ripon said that on last Saturday night they went to Pirojpur with onions from Faridpur and returning on Sunday when their truck came under petrol bomb attack at a place Bamrail under Ujirpur upazilla on Barisal-Faridpur road.Ripon Mia said that he also received injury on his body as result he could not give any succor to save burning Sohag. Sohag’s father is not alive but his mother Selina Begum is blind bringing immense miseries to their family who was the only earning person.The blind mother and other relatives cursed the blockaders for their merciless and heinous attacks on the innocent people. -BSS, Faridpur