An 11-year-old boy, Sheikh Abdullah, has died after being electrocuted while climbing a tamarind tree in his family’s yard to pick the fruit in Chandanaish, Chattogram. It happened at around 8am on Thursday (12 November) in the Dighirpar area of West Jafarabad village in Bailtali union of the upazila. The boy was electrocuted in front of his father.
Sheikh Abdullah was the son of Mohammad Sohel, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver in the area. He was a student at a local Hifz school.
Mohammad Sohel said he was asleep on Thursday morning. Abdullah came back from the madrasa, climbed a tamarind tree beside the house and began picking the fruit. When his daughter told him, he came out of the house and told his son to come down from the tree.
When he got closer he saw his son sitting on a branch. Moments later Abdullah touched an electric wire running beside the tree and was electrocuted.
To save his son, Sohel quickly climbed onto the roof of the auto-rickshaw and brought him down from the tree with a bamboo pole. He then took him to the upazila health complex, where doctors declared him dead.
In tears, Mohammad Sohel said he had five daughters and one son, and the boy was dearly loved by his sisters. He had dreamed of raising his son to become an Islamic scholar. Seeing his son die before his eyes has left him devastated.
S M Sayem, chairman of the local Bailtali Union Parishad, said Mohammad Sohel’s only son had been electrocuted while picking tamarind. It is a deeply painful incident, he said, and the whole area is in mourning over the boy’s death.
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