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BSS, Parbatipur

Speakers at a workshop here underscored the need for concerted efforts to create mass social awareness against acid terrorism and ensure the stringent punishments to the acid throwers to prevent the most heinous crime.

They also asked all people to provide immediate treatment to acid victims by showering adequate quantity of water on injured places before any other treatment for saving them from severe consequences.

They said this while addressing a day-long workshop on Prevention of Acid Terrorism organised by Dinajpur Mohila Bohumukhi Shikhkhya Kendra (MBSK) with the assistances of Action Aid Bangladesh at Parbatipur Upazila Parishad auditorium in Dinajpur recently.

With Executive Chief of MBSK Ms Razia Hossain in the chair, the workshop was attended by UNO of Parbatipur upazila M Selim Abed as the chief guest.

Officer-in-Charge of Parbatipur Thana Habibur Rahman, Medical Officer Dr Gopinath Bosak, President of Parbatipur Nagorik Committee Bikash Kanti Roy, elite Khaled Mossarraf Hossain, addressed, among others.

Morsheda Parveen Moni presented a keynote paper on the subject while Shabana Begum and Abdul Baki narrated the danger of acid terrorism and impact of the heinous crime on the acid victims and society.

Representatives of different NGOs, officials, members of the civil society, public representatives, teachers, journalists, lawyers, community leaders, women rights activists, religious leaders and elite took part in the workshop.

Several victims of acid attacks of the area were also present at the workshop and narrated their fearful experiences of the heinous crimes committed against them.

The speakers asked all stakeholders, public representatives, professional groups and elite for enhancing their concerted efforts with a view to creating social awareness against the acid terrorism for saving innocent persons. They also asked the participant doctors and nurses for utilising the knowledge they acquired from the orientation course while providing treatment to acid victims as soon as possible after the attacks.