Pilot Abid’s son traumatised

Mahi accompanied by his relatives went to the army stadium to bring dead body of his father on 19 March. Photo: Abdus Salam
Mahi accompanied by his relatives went to the army stadium to bring dead body of his father on 19 March. Photo: Abdus Salam

Fourteen year-old Mahi becomes calm and quiet, according to his family members.

"Mahi becomes calm and quiet and he is not saying anything,” one of his relatives, Khondoker Rezaul Karim, told Prothom Alo. 

Tanjid Sultan Mahi, the only child of pilot Abid Sultan, has lost both of his parents in a span of 10 days.

His mother Afsana Khanam died in a city hospital at 9:30am on Friday. Earlier, pilot Abid Sultan died in US Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu, Nepal. 

Afsana was undergoing treatment at National Institute of Neuroscience and Hospital in the capital.

She suffered strokes twice after her husband Abid Sultan had died in the plane accident.

Mahi is their only son.

Afsana's cousin Khondoker Rezaul Karim said Mahi was beside his mother since she suffered strokes.

“We are worried about Mahi,” he said.   

Afsana’s dead body was taken to their Uttara residence. She will be buried beside her husband’s grave in Banani graveyard.

Pilot captain Abid Sultan died on 12 March in a hospital in Kathmandhu while he was undergoing treatment after receiving injuries in the plane crash.