A 16-year-old madrasa student has died after being bitten by a venomous snake in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.
Suniya Akter died at around 5am on Friday (30 October) while being treated at Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital.
She was the second daughter of Kuddus Mia, a driver, of Abdulpur village in Raotgaon union of the upazila. She was a tenth-grade student at Chowdhury Bazar GS Kutubshah Alim Madrasa.
According to her family, Suniya was in the middle of her tenth-grade test examinations, with the last paper due on Sunday. After the tests she was preparing to sit the Dakhil examination.
Family members said a venomous snake bit Suniya on Thursday night as she slept at home. Relatives rushed her to Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital, where she died while under treatment at around 5am on Friday.
Md Anu Mia, acting chairman of Raotgaon Union Parishad, confirmed the madrasa student’s death from the snakebite.
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