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2 die in Cumilla road accident

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 29 May 2023  Updated: 1:26 AM, 29 May 2023
Onlookers stand in front of a maimed microbus in Cumilla's Daudkandi Upazila on Sunday as a truck rammed it leaving two people dead on the spot. NN photo

UNB  :
Two people were killed and four others injured when a microbus overturned after being hit by a truck on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla’s Daudkandi, police said.
The accident took place at Shahidnagar in Daudkandi upazila of the highway at 8:30am on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Badsha Mia of Daudkandi’s Bhabanipur and Dulal Mia of Ketundi village.

Jahangir Alam, officer-in-charge of Daudkandi Highway Police Station, said a truck hit the Daudkandi-bound microbus from behind. As a result, the microbus overturned on the side of the road killing two and injuring four others. The injured were undergoing treatment at Gauripur Upazila Health Complex. Meanwhile, the police recovered the bodies of the deceased and sent them to the Gauripur Upazila Health Complex morgue for autopsy.