Minor girl in coma after attempt to bury her alive
An eight-year-old girl is fighting for her life in a hospital in Khulna after she was rescued from being buried alive on Friday evening by a relative.
Rubina has been in a coma since admission to the Sadar hospital the same night with severe injuries.
Sources said she had bruises all over her body, suggesting that she was beaten black and blue before the attempt to bury her.
The minor girl is the daughter of Sheikh Abdur Rahman of Phultala village under Bagerhat Sadar thana. Mysteriously, Rahman has been missing for the last eight years.
This hair-raising incident has created sensation among the locals, who along with civil rights groups in Bagerhat have demanded immediate arrest of the girl's uncle Rahenuddin, and his exemplary punishment.
Police said the attempt on Rubina's life appears to be the result of a long-standing family dispute. The girl's father Abdur and her uncle Rahenuddin had been archenemies. Since his disappearance, Rahenuddin kept up the ill-treatment on Abdur's wife Parvin Begum and her children -- Rana, Rozina and Rubina.
He deprived them of their rightful share of the paternal land and other property.
Police and locals said that the torture and abuse of Parvin and her young family was well known in the locality. Several times Rahenuddin threatened to bring an end to Parvin and her children's lives.
On Friday evening, Parvin as well as her two elder children happened to be out of the house, when Rahenuddin attacked the lone girl.
A neighbour Hena Begum first noticed Rahenuddin trying to bury the girl in the cover of the dark and raised a hue and cry. As locals rushed to the spot they found Rubina with her arms and legs tied up and mouth gagged with a scarf inside a newly dug grave.
They rescued her and rushed her to the local hospital.
The victim's elder sister Rozina lodged an FIR with Bagerhat Sadar thana in this connection, naming her uncle Rahenuddin as the only accused.
The uncle has been absconding since the incident.
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