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After the trauma of losing their spouse and breadwinner to the Sundarbans\u2019 great predator, women are cast out by their superstitious communities. But they are coming together to rebuild their lives<\/p>\n

Nobody saw exactly what happened in the minutes leading up to Aziz Murad\u2019s death. But when his friends got back to the boat where they had left him, they found only his severed hand in the fishing net he was untying.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were only gone for about five minutes,\u201d says Abu Sufyan, who was first to reach the boat. \u201cWhen we got back, he was gone and there was blood everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After the trauma of losing their spouse and breadwinner to the Sundarbans\u2019 great predator, women are cast out by their superstitious communities. But they are coming together to rebuild their livesNobody saw exactly what happened in the minutes leading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,327,2331,2437,456,1089,464,65,59,972,79,61,94,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-bangladesh","category-climate-crisis","category-coastlines","category-conservation","category-endangered-habitats","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-global-development","category-rivers","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63695,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63694\/revisions\/63695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}