All he did was kick a ball, and it cost him his life
A schoolboy, who was beaten severely for kicking a football in Noakhali's Chatkhil upazila on Sunday, died of his injuries at a hospital in the capital yesterday.
The deceased, Osman Gani, 15, was a seventh grader at Saptagaon Adarsha High School in the same upazila.
Osman was beaten up by a neighbour in Manikpur village for kicking his son's football. He passed away at a hospital in the capital around 6:00am yesterday, said Shah Alam, a cousin of the victim.
Alam said 12-year-old Muslim, son of Mohammad Montu, was playing football in the courtyard adjacent to a road around 2:00pm on Sunday. Osman was sitting nearby.
Suddenly, the ball rolled to Osman and he kicked it. The ball then landed on the roof of a nearby one-storey building.
Muslim went home crying and informed his father of the incident. Montu then rushed there and beat Osman with a wooden object, leaving him badly injured, said Alam.
Osman was taken to Noakhali Sadar Hospital from where he was moved to Dhaka for better treatment.
Osman's father is an expatriate in Kuwait. He along with his mother and sister used to live in the capital.
Alam said Osman's family returned to village home from the capital in Ramadan. They started living in their recently built one-storey house.
The victim's mother said Montu, a mason, wanted to do the construction work of the building. He was angry as he did not get the work, she alleged.
The mother filed a case with Chatkhil Police Station and police are trying to arrest the accused, said Gias Uddin, officer-in-charge of the police station.
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