KALADAN
NEWS
Date:
A Burmese teenage Girl
Committed Suicide in Bangladesh Refugee Camp
Cox’s Bazar, April 25: A Burmese teenage girl committed suicide taking
poison in a refugee camp of
The
teenager is identified as Faruni alias Fatema Khatun, 14, daughter of Noor Ahmed from shed No. 208, Hill No. 2 of Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp
under Ukhiya police station of Cox’s Bazar District, he
further said.
On
22nd April, she had an
altercation with her mother for money to buy some clothes for her. But
she was refused to pay by her mother because of shortage of money. In absence of her mother, she sold
some of her ornaments to someone in the camp for buying some clothes. She was severely beaten by her mother for
selling her ornaments and asked her to take back all the sold ornaments. She
was also threatened either to death or expel out of the shed, if she failed to
comply the order, said Rahima Begum, a friend of Fatema
from the camp.
The
next day, on 23rd April, while her mother went to nearby shed to see
her relatives; the Fatema again sold the rest of the
ornaments to buy some poison. She managed a small packet of rat killing poison
from nearby shop by a refugee boy. After coming back of her mother from her
relatives, an altercation was occurred again between daughter and mother over
the ornaments. This made Fatema very upset and
swallowed poison entering inside the room while her mother was sitting out side
of the room, she said.
A
few minutes later, Fatema was continuously vomiting
and made noises and was going to senseless. Her mother and nearby people rushed
to the house and immediately brought her to the camp clinic but she was
referred to the
Her
dead body was sent for postmortem to the Cox’s
A
government case was filed by the camp officials in the Ukhiya
police station under the section of premature death, said a police officer of the refugee camp.
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