Accidents leave 15 dead in Narsingdi and Feni
Fifteen people were killed and 14 others injured in two road accidents in Narsingdi and Feni districts on Monday, reports the UNB.
In Narsingdi, nine people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a human-hauler at Darikandi village on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at night.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Tariqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Bhairab Highway Police Station, said the speedy bus collided with the three-wheeler around 9pm, leaving eight people dead on the spot and 11 others injured.
The injured were taken to Bhairab Health Complex in Kishoreganj where the duty doctor declared one of them dead, he said.
In Feni, six people, including two children and three relatives of a Qatar expatriate, lost their lives in a pre-dawn fatal road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong on their way to Chattogram airport to receive him.
The deceased were identified as expatriate Mohammad Sabuj’s two sons—Shuvo, 7, and Noman, 2, his mother-in-law Jahanara, sister Runa, and niece Popy, 16, and microbus driver Abbas Uddin, 40.
Sabuj’s two brothers-in-law Alam and Raju, nephew Riaz and another relative Nur Nahar were also injured in the accident that took place when a truck collided head-on with a microbus carrying the victims at Muhuriganj in Chhagalnaiya upazila around 3:30am.
Hailing from Laxmipur Sadar upazila, the victims were going to Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram to receive Sabuj when the tragedy struck them.
The collision took place when a goat-laden truck was heading towards Chhagalnaiya on the wrong side of the road after taking a U-turn, said Mohammad Nazrul Islam, superintendent of Cumilla regional highway police.
The accident left six people dead on the spot and the four others injured while the driver of the truck sped away after the accident, he said.
On information, police and fire service men recovered the bodies. The injured were taken to Sadar Hospital.
Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Wahiduzzaman visited the injured at the hospital.
The bodies were handed over the family members with the permission of DC.
A case was filed with Chhagalnaiya Police Station in this regard.