But his pleas fell on deaf ears, as motor garage owner Omar Sharif, Sharif's mother Beauty Begum and a man Mintu Mia, continued to pump air into his body.
Although the 12-year-old was rescued and taken to the Khulna Medical College and Hospital, 250km southwest of the capital Dhaka, he succumbed to his injuries on the same night, leaving behind his bereaved family.
Enraged locals who learned of the Rakib's death broke into Sharif’s garage that night, caught the three suspects and handed them over to the police. People came out on the streets of Khulna demanding justice for Rakib.
The incident was the latest in a series of child murders in Bangladesh, which have shocked the nation and forced the government to take measures to stop them.
"We have arrested all the accused," Nibash Chandra Majhi, Khulna Metropolitan Police Commissioner, told Al Jazeera on Thursday. "[The] investigation is still going on. We hope to file the charge-sheet against the accused by end of this month," he added.
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