 He died of cirrhosis, drink, and a ruptured liver from the beatings, but mostly from the beatings.
/ace |
Yet another soldier of the Bangladesh Rifles died at the BDR hospital in Pilkhana on Friday. The authorities concerned claimed that Sepoy Lal Miah, 34, who was posted at 25 Rifles Battalion in Panchagarh, was diagnosed with Hepatitis B and liver cirrhosis after he was admitted to the BDR Hospital on January 1.
"How'd he get the cirrhosis, Dr. Quincy?"
"Drank too much."
"Really! How much did he drink?"
"About a gallon.
"That all?"
"All at once." |
He was transferred to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on March 4 for better treatment and was being treated by specialists after he was released from the DMCH on March 16.
| I'm just sure they had the top liver specialist at the Dhaka Medical College working on him ... |
He was admitted to the BDR Hospital when his condition deteriorated at about 9:15pm on Thursday and breathed his last at about 1:30pm on Friday, said the authorities.
"Cause of death, doc?"
"Looks like he quit breathing."
"Good enough for us, doc. Sign here."
"He quit breathing right after the beating."
"Don't put that on the form, doc. Just sign." |
His body will be sent to his home at Syed village under Muktagachha upazila in Mymensingh later on, said the authorities in a press release on Friday.
| No, we have no idea where that is. |
With the death of Lal Miah, the number of border guards who died in the capital and elsewhere after the February 25-26 Pilkhana rebellion stands at 20. Of them four committed suicide, seven died of heart attack and ten of other diseases, according to the BDR authorities.
| Nobody really misses them, either. |
Ten soldiers were remanded in police custody for five days on Friday in connection with the BDR carnage case. Nine of them were put on remand for the first time while the other was remanded again on Friday after the end of his previous 5-day remand on Thursday.
"This one needs more drink!"
"Get the judge to remand him again!" |
A total of 114 people are now on remand in the custody of CID police.
A total of 1,048 soldiers have so far been arrested in connection with 25 cases filed with 21 district courts, while in Dhaka the lawmen have arrested 1,386 people, most of them soldiers, in connection with the BDR carnage case filed with New Market police station. Some 75 people, including three civilians, have so far made confessional statements in the courts. |