Road mishaps leave five people dead in Feni, Barishal
News Desk :
Five people died in separate road mishaps in Feni and Barishal on Friday.
In Feni, Three people, including a couple were killed in a road accident as a speeding passenger bus rammed into a CNG-run autorickshaw on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Chhagalnaiya upazila of Feni on Friday night, reports UNB.
The deceased were Bangladesh Army’s former warrant officer Abu Taher, 59, his wife Salma Aktar, 48, and autorickshaw driver Mona Miah, 30.
Taher’s brother Sadek Hossain, panel chairman of Ghopal union under the upazila, confirmed the deaths of the three saying that his brother accompanied by wife Salma went to the house of his father-in-law in Banglabazar area under Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram, a nearby upazila of Feni.
Police and locals said the Dhaka-bound bus of Shymoli Paribahan knocked down the autorickshaw when it was taking a U-turn after coming out from a refueling pump by the highway in Samitir Bazar area under the upazila around 7pm.
The impact of the accident left the autorickshaw fallen into a roadside and the three critically injured, they said.
The injured were rushed to Feni Sadar Hospital where physicians declared them dead upon arrival.
Fazilpur Highway Police Station’s Officer-in-charge of Rashed Khan Chowdhury said the bodies were sent to the hospital morgue for autopsy.
They recovered the damaged autorickshaw, he said, adding the bus could not be seized immediately.
In Barishal, two workers died after being crushed under the wheels of a sand-laden truck in west Kaunia of Barishal city.
The incident happened on the road adjacent to Hazera Khatun School in West Kaunia around 1:00 am on Friday. The deceased were identified as Yunus (59) and Habib (38).
According to police and locals, Yunus, Habib, and some other workers were working to move the truck that got stuck in the sand.
As the truck reversed suddenly, they (Yunus and Habib) were crushed under its wheels and died on the spot.
“We rushed to the spot and found the two workers dead under the wheels of the truck,” said Rabiul Alamin,senior station officer of Barisal Sadar Fire Service and Civil Defence.
