Three Killed in Separate Road Accidents in Khulna

Three people, including a truck driver and two

motorcyclists, were killed and 15-20 bus passengers injured in two separate

road accidents at Atharomile in Dumuria upazila on the Khulna-Satkhira

highway here today.

The deceased were identified as Jinnat Mia, 35, a truck driver from Moktarpur

village in Munshiganj district and motorcyclists Abdur Rouf Gazi, 43, son of

late Abdul Barik Gazi, and Yunus Sardar, 25, son of Abdul Malek Sardar of

Narnia village in Dumuria upazila of the district.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Kharnia Highway Police Station Munshi Parvez Ahmed

confirmed the deaths.

According to local sources, highway police and Fire Service and Civil Defence

officials, the truck belonging to Crown Cement Company was returning to

Khulna after unloading cement in Satkhira when it collided head-on with a

passengers' bus travelling from Khulna to Satkhira around 2:30 pm on

Wednesday.

The truck veered off the road, while the bus plunged into a water-filled

ditch beside the highway. The truck driver and bus passengers were injured in

the collision.

Critically injured Jinnat was rescued and taken to Dumuria Upazila Health

Complex, where the on-duty physician Dr Tasmia Akter declared him dead.

Local residents claimed that the bus was full of passengers and at least 45

people had been injured. The injured were taken to different hospitals and

clinics in Tala Upazila Health Complex and Satkhira Medical College and

Hospital.

However, OC Munshi Parvez Ahmed said police had not found any injured bus

passengers at the scene.

In another accident, Abdur Rouf Gazi and Yunus Sardar were killed when their

motorcycle was hit by a speeding bus at nearly the same location around 1:30

am on Wednesday.

According to locals and police, Rouf was a fish wholesaler at Chuknagar Bazar

in Dumuria upazila.

On Tuesday evening, he went to the market with Yunus, an employee at his

business, to pay outstanding dues to several fish farmers from neighbouring

Tala upazila who had sold fish at his wholesale outlet.

After settling the payments, they were returning home around 1:30am when a

Satkhira-bound bus coming from the opposite direction hit their motorcycle

near Atharomile bus stand, leaving both riders dead on the spot.

OC Munshi Parvez Ahmed said a case had been filed over the incident. The

bodies of the two victims were handed over to their families after completion

of legal procedures.