UK news: 'I went away with my family - I was the only one to return alive'
Sadiqul Islam left his home with his family in the UK for a trip to Asia last summer - that ended with all his close relatives dead.
Despite her health initially looking to be improving, she sadly died of delayed carbon monoxide poisoning to the brain in October 2022, three months after the incident. From this, he also developed gastroparesis and slow chronic transit, meaning he is in chronic pain and has to be meticulously careful about the type of food he eats and how he looks after himself. He says that as a result of how long he has been waiting for treatment in Cardiff and his family's concerns, they decided to try abroad.
"It was just a chance that I was fine. There was a fan in the room and because I was so ill and so vulnerable they put the fan next to me and the smoke was being pushed around away from me but we are not 100% sure. It was a freak accident. "My mum was the first person to know. My mum went for a test because when she was unconscious she was sleeping on her arm and it was all numb so she went for a test to see if it was broken and then I believe it was my grandmother or the police that advised her that they had passed away.
"At that point, I was really confused and stressed. I didn't really want to think about it. I was trying to concentrate on my mother because if she sees me stressed or upset it would affect her. So I was just trying to concentrate on my mother, sister and me and getting us better. Sadly, on August 6, around 11 days after the incident, Samira died aged just 20. "I did attend the funeral. I was like, I missed my brother's funeral. I missed my father's funeral. I need to attend my sister's funeral. I need to see her one last time before. They were telling me I wasn’t in any fit condition to go but I was able to slowly walk down to the barrier. I wasn’t in the right state really.
It had now been several weeks since the incident and, with his mother receiving specialist care in a hospital in Dhaka, Sadiqul returned to Cardiff as he was running out of his medication and specialist food. He was hoping that his mother would be able to follow him back not long after or he could go back out and help her return. When Sadiqul returned to the UK his mother was under the supervision of her parents and brothers.
'My family meant the world to me' Sadiqul then faced the reality of returning to his home in Cardiff without his family. The family all lived together and were "very close" which made everything so much more difficult.
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