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“If we fall asleep the gangs steal our children”

Caught in a living hell, these mothers have only one thing to cling to - hope.

Smog shrouds the human shadows congregating beneath the wide arc of Bangladesh’s national football stadium. Car horns blast in the hazy darkness. It is 10pm. Babu is ­waiting to make his bed.