bdnews24.com :
Bangladesh’s renowned painter Shahabuddin is still in shock. His only daughter Chitro witnessed the terror attacks in Paris on Friday night. After Shahabuddin posted his reaction on Facebook, bdnews24.com Assistant Editor Raju Alauddin spoke to him over phone.
“It was a horrible night. Horrible! I am still having goose bumps. Fear has left [me] in a strange blurry state,” he wrote in the Facebook post. “It was 8pm and we were preparing for
dinner. My daughter Chitro hadn’t yet returned home. She had gone towards Bastille like she does on every weekend. It is a very popular [hangout] spot for young people and very crowded on weekends.
” … We knew Chitro would come home late and have her dinner outside. As my wife and I were getting ready for dinner. Chitro called. She sounded terrified. She said she was in danger and hiding in the basement of a café in Bastille with few other people. Chitro said all the lights had been turned off, as heavy gunfire made it look like war.’
“I couldn’t believe it. I told my wife to turn on the TV. We were shocked to see the news. What happened to the place I had just been! It had become a war zone. Soldiers were running around, there was heavy firing. [We] came to know that Paris was under a terror attack. [I] was gripped by tension. All I could think of how soon would I get to see my daughter. Would I be able to see her again at all? We felt so helpless.
“But Chitro kept updating us on the phone whenever she could. They could not hide in the café for long…The battle was turning deadly. The café was on the same lane on which Bataclan concert hall is located. So, the blasts, the firing, the screaming, the deaths-everything was happening around them all at once. They feared that the café too might come under a bomb attack. So they sneaked out through the back door, [and] crawled to a garden behind [the café]. There were rows of houses beside the garden, but it was dark there. Only the streetlights were on. The lights had been turned off in houses, shops, cafés and restaurants for fear of a terror attack. All the doors and windows were shut.
They could not even hide inside someone’s house to save themselves. “I got another call from Chitro … She said a woman had let them inside her house. They would have to hide there for some more time. For a quite a long time perhaps. Police asked everyone not to go outside. I told her, ‘Wait in silence where you are. Don’t even try to come outside.’
Bangladesh’s renowned painter Shahabuddin is still in shock. His only daughter Chitro witnessed the terror attacks in Paris on Friday night. After Shahabuddin posted his reaction on Facebook, bdnews24.com Assistant Editor Raju Alauddin spoke to him over phone.
“It was a horrible night. Horrible! I am still having goose bumps. Fear has left [me] in a strange blurry state,” he wrote in the Facebook post. “It was 8pm and we were preparing for
dinner. My daughter Chitro hadn’t yet returned home. She had gone towards Bastille like she does on every weekend. It is a very popular [hangout] spot for young people and very crowded on weekends.
” … We knew Chitro would come home late and have her dinner outside. As my wife and I were getting ready for dinner. Chitro called. She sounded terrified. She said she was in danger and hiding in the basement of a café in Bastille with few other people. Chitro said all the lights had been turned off, as heavy gunfire made it look like war.’
“I couldn’t believe it. I told my wife to turn on the TV. We were shocked to see the news. What happened to the place I had just been! It had become a war zone. Soldiers were running around, there was heavy firing. [We] came to know that Paris was under a terror attack. [I] was gripped by tension. All I could think of how soon would I get to see my daughter. Would I be able to see her again at all? We felt so helpless.
“But Chitro kept updating us on the phone whenever she could. They could not hide in the café for long…The battle was turning deadly. The café was on the same lane on which Bataclan concert hall is located. So, the blasts, the firing, the screaming, the deaths-everything was happening around them all at once. They feared that the café too might come under a bomb attack. So they sneaked out through the back door, [and] crawled to a garden behind [the café]. There were rows of houses beside the garden, but it was dark there. Only the streetlights were on. The lights had been turned off in houses, shops, cafés and restaurants for fear of a terror attack. All the doors and windows were shut.
They could not even hide inside someone’s house to save themselves. “I got another call from Chitro … She said a woman had let them inside her house. They would have to hide there for some more time. For a quite a long time perhaps. Police asked everyone not to go outside. I told her, ‘Wait in silence where you are. Don’t even try to come outside.’
