7 die while going to hospital to see ailing relative

Laxmipur Correspondent: Seven people, including six members of a family, were killed when a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Ratanpur on Dhaka-Raipur highway in Sadar upazila early Wednesday.

The deceased were identified as Chandraganj’s Basuduhita BCL leader Antor’s father Shah Alam, mother Nasima Begum, grand mom Shamsunnahar, 42, brother Amit, 8, maternal aunt Rokeya Begum, her son Rubel and auto-rickshaw driver Nur Hossain Sohag.



The accident took place early Wednesday when a goods-laden truck hit the Laxmipur-bound CNG-run auto-rickshaw, leaving its passengers and the driver dead on the spot, said Inspector Shahjahan of Chandraganj Highway Police.

On information, police recovered the bodies and sent those to a local hospital morgue.

Following the accident, the truck fell into the roadside ditch.



Police said Shah Alam’s son Nadim was injured in an attack by his rivals and admitted to Sadar Hospital on Tuesday. Shah Alam along with his family met the tragedy while going to the hospital for seeing his ailing son Nadim at the hospital.

Police could not manage to arrest anyone as the truck driver fled the scene immediately after the accident.

risingbd/Laxmipur/January 23, 2019/Farhad Hossain/AKA