Staff Reporter :
A young Kashmir girl Khusboo Manzur (19), a student of Khwaja Yunus Ali Medical College and Hospital, has died jumping from the roof top of a guest house while on a study tour.
She breathed her last while undergoing treatment at the Khawaja Yunus Ali Medical College and Hospital in Sirajganj on Wednesday morning.
Our Shahjadpur Correspondent reports: The deceased Khusboo Manzur is the daughter of Manzur Ahmed Tarai in India’s Kashmir State. Khusboo was a third year student of Khawaja Yunus Ali Medical College.
PPD Guest House Manager Nazrul Islam said that Khushbu Manzur died after jumping from the roof of the Guest House adjacent to BSCIC Bus Stand in Shahjadpur of Sirajganj district.
“Students of Khawaja Yunus Ali Medical College and Hospital usually come to Shahjadpur PPD Guest House every year and attend a three-day training, as part of their study tour. The third year students have usually come here and attend training in two batches. A batch of 54 students left guest house between September 3 and September 5 after completion of their study tour,” the Manager told this correspondent.
A total of 26 Indian students from Indian administered Kahmir State out of 43 students of the Department of Community Medicine of the Khawaja Yunus Ali Medical College and Hospital went there on a training excursion on September 6. After the field training in a village of Shajadpur Upazila, they returned to the guest house for lunch.
Khushbu, sneaking out of the group went to the roof of the guest house and jumped from it at about 3pm, leaving herself seriously injured.
She was immediately rushed to the PPD Hospital for first aid treatment, but when her condition deteriorated she was shifted to Khawaja Yunus Ali Medical College and Hospital. But she succumbed to her injuries on Wednesday morning.
Officer-in-Charge of Enayetpur Police Station Anisur Rahman told The New Nation the body was taken to Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Mujib General Hospital morgue for autopsy.
“We will be able to know the reason behind her death after receiving the autopsy report. The authority of the Medical College has filed a case in this regard,” Anisur said.
Chief of the study tour Professor Dr Md Mahmudul Huq didn’t make any comment as the matter is under police investigation.
Hindustan Times reports: Khusboo Manzur, a resident of Anantnag from South Kashmir, was studying at Khwaja Yunus Ali Medical College in Bangladesh. Manzur reportedly fell from her hostel building, suffering severe injuries on Tuesday. She died on Wednesday.
Former chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah on Wednesday urged the external affairs ministry to help the deceased family with the repatriation of the body.
“We don’t know exactly what happened, but as per reports, it has come to fore that the girl died in an accident in Bangladesh,” said Gulzar Ahmad, additional deputy commissioner, Anantnag.
“Government is aware of the issue. We are taking the necessary steps to bring the body back,” he said.
Khusboo Manzur was a 3rd-year MBBS student, and all the major political parties urged the MEA to help in the repatriation of the body.
Taking to Twitter, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti said, “Khusbhoo Manzur studying MBBS at Khwaja Younis Ali medical college in Bangladesh passed away in an accident. Request MEA to help repatriate her body to India as soon as possible. @DrSJaishankar@ihcdhaka.”
National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah also tweeted and said: “Requesting @MEAIndia & @ihcdhaka for any possible help. The family is desperate to repatriate the mortal remains of Khusboo so she can be buried by the family & loved ones at home rather than far away surrounded by strangers. Please help”.
People’s Conference president, Sajad Lone also offered his condolences to the family. “Tragic. Request @ihcdhaka @DrSJaishankar @manojsinha_ to please intervene and facilitate the family. May Allah grant her Jannat. My condolences to the family on this unspeakably tragic loss,” he said.
