‘Husband eaters’: the double loss of Bangladesh’s ostracised tiger widows
The Guardian -

After the trauma of losing their spouse and breadwinner to the Sundarbans’ 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 up to Aziz Murad’s 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.“We were only gone for about five minutes,” says Abu Sufyan, who was first to reach the...

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