bdnews24.com:
Saving himself from impending death was the only thing on his mind when Shoaib Mohammad Salman jumped off the first floor of Sergeant Zahurul Haq Hall of Dhaka University (DU) during Monday’s pre-dawn earthquake.
Shoaib is a postgraduate student of DU’s Department of Public Administration. In a state of panic, as he put it, he had never thought that his reckless act could have been actually fatal or might leave him badly injured.
He was, however, lucky to escape with minor injuries on his right leg.
His leg swathed in bandage, Shoaib narrated his fearful experience to bdnews24.com after returning to the hall following treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
He said that after being jolted out of sleep by the tremor, he jumped off the first floor corridor of the hall’s extension building.
“Eight of us stay in room number 2014 on the first floor. We rushed out of the room as the building started to shake vigorously. “But as the gate of the building was locked and we could not go out through it, panic gripped us. On the spur of the moment, I jumped off the building,” he said.
“At that moment, the only thing going through my mind was how to save myself.”
Shoaib, however, was not the only one to act in haste when the 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit Dhaka at 5:05am Monday. At least 29 persons, including some students of DU, had to rush to DMCH after sustaining injuries while dashing out of their houses or by jumping off the building in panic.
There were also reports of students being injured after jumping off Haji Mohammad Mohsin Hall and Kabi Jasimuddin Hall of DU.
DU Acting Proctor Amzad Ali said 16 persons had been taken to DMCH. Three critically injured were admitted to the hospital, said in-charge of the DMCH’s ticket counter Abdul Baten.
Among them, Yasin Arafat and ‘Iqbal’ are DU students.
Repairs have been going on in the extension building of the hall where Shoaib Mohammad Salman stays.
“It appeared to me that the building was vulnerable. It could collapse any moment due to the tremor,” he said.
It was this fear that prompted him to jump off the building, Shoaib says. He said at that moment Yasin Arafat, a student of the banking and insurance department, too jumped off the second floor of the same building.
His friends first rushed him to the university’s medical centre. From there he was taken after sometime to DMCH. He said his family members in Tangail became worried when a television channel beamed footage of him being taken to DMCH.
Saving himself from impending death was the only thing on his mind when Shoaib Mohammad Salman jumped off the first floor of Sergeant Zahurul Haq Hall of Dhaka University (DU) during Monday’s pre-dawn earthquake.
Shoaib is a postgraduate student of DU’s Department of Public Administration. In a state of panic, as he put it, he had never thought that his reckless act could have been actually fatal or might leave him badly injured.
He was, however, lucky to escape with minor injuries on his right leg.
His leg swathed in bandage, Shoaib narrated his fearful experience to bdnews24.com after returning to the hall following treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
He said that after being jolted out of sleep by the tremor, he jumped off the first floor corridor of the hall’s extension building.
“Eight of us stay in room number 2014 on the first floor. We rushed out of the room as the building started to shake vigorously. “But as the gate of the building was locked and we could not go out through it, panic gripped us. On the spur of the moment, I jumped off the building,” he said.
“At that moment, the only thing going through my mind was how to save myself.”
Shoaib, however, was not the only one to act in haste when the 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit Dhaka at 5:05am Monday. At least 29 persons, including some students of DU, had to rush to DMCH after sustaining injuries while dashing out of their houses or by jumping off the building in panic.
There were also reports of students being injured after jumping off Haji Mohammad Mohsin Hall and Kabi Jasimuddin Hall of DU.
DU Acting Proctor Amzad Ali said 16 persons had been taken to DMCH. Three critically injured were admitted to the hospital, said in-charge of the DMCH’s ticket counter Abdul Baten.
Among them, Yasin Arafat and ‘Iqbal’ are DU students.
Repairs have been going on in the extension building of the hall where Shoaib Mohammad Salman stays.
“It appeared to me that the building was vulnerable. It could collapse any moment due to the tremor,” he said.
It was this fear that prompted him to jump off the building, Shoaib says. He said at that moment Yasin Arafat, a student of the banking and insurance department, too jumped off the second floor of the same building.
His friends first rushed him to the university’s medical centre. From there he was taken after sometime to DMCH. He said his family members in Tangail became worried when a television channel beamed footage of him being taken to DMCH.
