Ten-year-old Azra Qureshi, a victim of Muzaffarnagar riots, has not slept ever since she was admitted in the Trauma Centre of the AIIMS here, says her father Aas Mohd who managed to escape the violence and now sits beside his daughter hoping she recovers and returns home.
But home, says Aas, is the last thing on Azra's mind. She doesn't want to go back to her village Baori in Shamli district, located 23 kilometers from Muzaffarnagar town.
"She jumps out of her sleep shouting 'mat maro, mar maro (don't kill, don't kill). The sight of her grand mother, cousin sister and uncle being killed flashes before her eyes. She is in shock and doesn't want to go back to Baori," says the father, a scrap dealer.
Azra is being treated for severe wounds that she received in her hands and abdomen.
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Mohammad said that during the riots he was in Delhi for business and got to meet his family only after four days.
Azra, who had undergone treatment at the district hospital, was shifted to AIIMS on September 13.
She underwent a debridement and external fixature operation today. A vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) device has been applied in her hand to heal the wounds.
Doctors are planning to stich the wounds in her abdomen after a week.
On September 8 afternoon, a mob armed with weapons like swords, sickles and guns had started attacking villagers. Some from the mob slashed her stomach with a sickle before slicing off flesh from her right wrist, Azra's maternal grandmother said.