At least 10 individuals, including three members of a family, lost their lives while four others sustained injuries in distinct road incidents across five districts within the past 48 hours. Among the casualties were five individuals who perished in a collision between a CNG-powered auto-rickshaw and a gas-carrying lorry on the Kushtia bypass road yesterday.
The deceased were identified as Zakaria, the auto-rickshaw driver aged 40, along with Amena, 65, and Komela, 62, who were relatives; Ashraful, a 45-year-old passenger of the auto-rickshaw; and his wife, Shirina, aged 30. All victims hailed from Khajanagar village in Kushtia’s Sadar upazila, and were en route from Bagha upazila in Rajshahi to their village.
The fatal incident occurred around 2:00 pm when the auto-rickshaw collided head-on with the lorry near the Kushtia Stores petrol pump area. According to Abu Obayed, the Officer-in-Charge of Chourhash Highway Police Station, three individuals died on the spot, while two others succumbed to their injuries while being transported to Kushtia General Hospital.
An eyewitness named Mithun recounted that the auto-rickshaw attempted to overtake another truck but ended up falling in front of the lorry, resulting in the tragic collision.
In a separate incident in Jhenaidah town, two individuals, identified as Shahriar Zaman Shanto, 25, and Toton Miah, 22, lost their lives in a head-on collision between a motorbike and a truck on Friday night. The victims were traveling from the town’s bus terminal to Arappur when the accident occurred on the Jhenaidah-Kushtia highway.
In Narsingdi, an elderly man named Nasir Uddin Nasu Munshi, aged 75, was fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle in Shibpur upazila early yesterday morning. Nasir Uddin, a caretaker at a local mosque, was on his way to the mosque for Fajr prayers when the incident took place.
A tragic collision between a dump truck and a motorcycle in Cox’s Bazar’s Chakaria upazila claimed the life of Nurul Hossain, 45, and left his 11-year-old son, Shamim Hossain, critically injured on Friday night. Nurul and his son were traveling from Baraitali to Chakaria upazila headquarters when the collision occurred at the Nalbila check post area.
In Jashore, a garment trader named Abdus Salam, 35, lost his life in a road crash in Keshabpur upazila on Friday night. Salam, along with his wife and two daughters, were on a motorbike that collided head-on with a brick-laden trolley at Mirzapur area.
Reports from our correspondents in Kushtia, Jhenaidah, Narisingdi, Cox’s Bazar, and Benapole contributed to this coverage.
