May
1, 2000
Cox’s
Bazar, Apr 30 (UNB) – An ill-fated father got back his missing boy
after nine years to the surprise of their fellow-villagers.
Mohammad
Ali, then a five-year-old boy, went missing with his family members,
except his father Helal Bahaddar, from their Saraitala village in
Moheshkhali when a devastating cyclone hit the country’s coastal
belt on April 29, 1991.
Helal
Bahaddar, a fisherman, had searched his family members -– his wife,
five daughters and two sons – for long, but all his efforts went in
vain.
Although
he married again after the tragedy, a frustrated Helal never gave up
the hope of getting back his family members.
One
day, Helal came to know that a missing boy was living at Badarkhali
village in Chakoria thana and he rushed to the village on April 20 and
recovered his missing son.
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