Police officer rescues newborn in Agrabad

It was around 5am yesterday. Sub-inspector (SI) Mustafizur Rahman of Double Mooring Police Station and his team were on patrol duty in front of Akhtaruzzaman Centre in Agrabad area of port city.

While walking on the road, the SI noticed that three street dogs were barking at each other in front of Sonali Bank, just 20 yards away, and trying to bite something on the footpath.

Curious, the police officer rushed to the spot and found a newborn.

SI Mustafizur Rahman immediately picked up the baby girl from the ground after shooing the dogs away and rushed to a nearby hospital.

“The whole situation took me by surprise. I picked the baby up right away with the help of a woman who was on her morning walk,” he told the newspaper.

“I took the newborn to Agrabad Maa O Shishu Hospital immediately where the doctors cleaned her up and gave her primary treatment,” said the SI.

Mustafizur said, “I came to Agrabad area again -- along with the baby -- to look for her mother and found a mentally challenged woman in blood-stained clothes in front of Janata Bank’s corporate office.”

“When I asked why her clothes were blood-stained, she did not answer but pointed to the footpath in front of Sonali Bank, where I found the baby. I took the woman to Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH),” the SI further said.

Assistant Commissioner (Double Mooring Zone) Ashikur Rahman told The Daily Star, “Both the woman and the baby are undergoing treatment at ward 33 of the hospital.”