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When her two granddaughters bid her goodbye before setting off for a school picnic on Saturday morning, little did Nurunnahara Begum know they would never return.
“While going for picnic, they told me ‘we are leaving, pray for us.’ They have left for ever. They will never return.”
Grandmother of Suraiya Afrin, a fifth grader of Benapole Government Primary School and Jebaiya Afrin, a third grader of the same school, was dropping out of consciousness while recollecting her last
conversation with her two granddaughters. The two sisters were among the seven who died in a road mishap while returning from a school picnic on Saturday evening. They had been staying with their maternal grandmother since they lost their mother to cancer two years ago. Suraiya was 11 and Jebaiya was 7.
Both sisters were good in studies and were liked even by their teachers.
Their school was hardly one kilometre from their maternal grandparents’ house.
The grandmother said a few days back they had urged their maternal uncles for the picnic fees. Their delight knew no bound after their wish was granted.
“After taking leave from me, maternal uncles and aunties, around 8am on Saturday they left for Mujibnagar. While returning from picnic on that ill-fated night around 8.30pm their bus met with an accident,” Nurunnahara Begum said.
According to other relatives, Sayed Ali of Benapole’s Kagajpukur village married Monowara Khatun aka Minu, daughter of Momrej Sardar of Small Achra village, 13 years ago. However, their married life did not last long as Minu was suddenly detected with cancer. Despite their best efforts and treatment, she could not be saved.
For the sake of her two daughters Sayed Ali did not marry again, Nurunnahara said.
“For whom will he live now?” she lamented.
The two sisters used to study staying in our place. They were good at studies. I used to treat them like my own daughters. Alas! Allah has snatched them from us,” Abdul Haque, maternal uncle of the two sisters said.
After the funeral prayer, they were laid to rest beside the grave of their mother at Smallchara village on Sunday.
When her two granddaughters bid her goodbye before setting off for a school picnic on Saturday morning, little did Nurunnahara Begum know they would never return.
“While going for picnic, they told me ‘we are leaving, pray for us.’ They have left for ever. They will never return.”
Grandmother of Suraiya Afrin, a fifth grader of Benapole Government Primary School and Jebaiya Afrin, a third grader of the same school, was dropping out of consciousness while recollecting her last
conversation with her two granddaughters. The two sisters were among the seven who died in a road mishap while returning from a school picnic on Saturday evening. They had been staying with their maternal grandmother since they lost their mother to cancer two years ago. Suraiya was 11 and Jebaiya was 7.
Both sisters were good in studies and were liked even by their teachers.
Their school was hardly one kilometre from their maternal grandparents’ house.
The grandmother said a few days back they had urged their maternal uncles for the picnic fees. Their delight knew no bound after their wish was granted.
“After taking leave from me, maternal uncles and aunties, around 8am on Saturday they left for Mujibnagar. While returning from picnic on that ill-fated night around 8.30pm their bus met with an accident,” Nurunnahara Begum said.
According to other relatives, Sayed Ali of Benapole’s Kagajpukur village married Monowara Khatun aka Minu, daughter of Momrej Sardar of Small Achra village, 13 years ago. However, their married life did not last long as Minu was suddenly detected with cancer. Despite their best efforts and treatment, she could not be saved.
For the sake of her two daughters Sayed Ali did not marry again, Nurunnahara said.
“For whom will he live now?” she lamented.
The two sisters used to study staying in our place. They were good at studies. I used to treat them like my own daughters. Alas! Allah has snatched them from us,” Abdul Haque, maternal uncle of the two sisters said.
After the funeral prayer, they were laid to rest beside the grave of their mother at Smallchara village on Sunday.
