Mujibul stands by Rubina

Railways Minister Mujibul Haque yesterday assured the family of Jagannath University (JnU) student Rubina Akhter, who lost her legs under a train on Sunday afternoon, of standing by her.

He said everything will be done to provide the 22-year-old with prosthetic legs.

The minister also handed over a cheque for Tk 2 lakh to her mother, Rahima Khatun, at his ministry office around noon, said a press release.

He also spoke to the director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital where Rubina is undergoing treatment and enquired about her physical condition.

A final-year student of social work department at Jagannath University, Rubina in a tragic accident lost both her legs after she stumbled and fell before a moving train in the capital's Kamalapur Railway Station on Sunday.

Rubina was in her final months to finish her studies and her poor family looked up to her for a brighter future. After losing her father, a farmer, two years ago, she had been facing difficult times to support herself for her educational and other expenses in the city. Rubina used to bear her expenses from a scholarship awarded by a private bank, but the tenure of the scholarship was about to end. She used to tutor a student, but that also ended recently.