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Limon to get artificial leg Sunday

Doctors fitted college student Limon Hossain, the victim of Rab shooting, with an artificial leg yesterday but removed it soon after as it did not adjust properly.

Physicians at the Centre for Disability Development, a non-government organisation, in Savar will try it again on Sunday, said Limon's father Tofazzal Hossain.

"We took Limon at the centre twice last month when officials there measured his leg to make a prosthetic one," Tofazzal said.

Sixteen-year-old Limon was shot, reportedly point-blank, in the left leg by Rapid Action Battalion members in Jhalakathi in March. The leg had to be later amputated.

Limon will have to stay at the centre for a few days after fixing the artificial leg to do some exercises, Tofazzal quoted doctors as saying.

The centre will bear the cost of the artificial leg, doctors at the centre told The Daily Star earlier.

Source : The Daily Star