Five More Die in Feni, M’singh, Gazipur

Three workers were killed and another was injured as a prime mover plowed through them on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Mirsarai upazila yesterday morning. The deceased were identified as Alamgir Hossain alias Alam, 45, and Shafiqul Islam, 42, from Pabna, and Masud Mia, 35, from Brahmanbaria, according to the police. The identity of the injured individual could not be known immediately.

The incident occurred when the three workers, along with 15 others, were assigned to install a new gas pipeline beside the highway, said Sohel Sarkar, officer-in-charge of Jorarganj Highway Police Station. The Chattogram-bound prime mover from Dhaka plowed through the workers while they were working beside the highway at Talbaria BSCIC Rastar Matha area around 7:45 am, added the OC.

Locals rushed the four injured workers to Mirsarai Upazila Health Complex, where doctors declared the three dead. The injured worker was transferred to Chattogram Medical College Hospital for better treatment. The police seized the prime mover, but the driver fled the scene.

In another incident, two people were killed and three injured when a pickup rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Fulgazi upazila of Feni. The deceased were identified as auto-rickshaw driver Saiful Islam, 25, and Anas, an 8-month-old child, son of Akram Hossain, from Cumilla. According to the OC of Fulgazi Police Station, Abul Hasim, a speeding pickup-van collided with an auto-rickshaw in Shanirhat area, resulting in the deaths of two individuals and injuries to three others. The pickup driver has been arrested in connection with the incident.

In Mymensingh, two people, including a child, were killed when a private car fell into a ditch beside the Mymensingh-Kishoreganj road after hitting the child in Ishwarganj upazila. The victims were identified as car passenger Babu Pal, 65, from Kishoreganj, and pedestrian Jannatul Adon, 11, from Ishwarganj. According to OC Farid Ahmed of Ishwarganj Police Station, a Mymensingh-bound private car hit Jannatul in Char Hosenpur area around 5:00 pm while she was crossing the road with other children. The car then fell into a roadside ditch. The driver managed to flee the scene, but the police recovered the bodies and seized the vehicle. A case has been filed with the police station.

In Gazipur, a police constable was killed and two others injured when a lorry hit a police vehicle at Rajendrapur intersection in Gazipur Sadar upazila. The deceased was identified as Bitan Barua, a constable from Sadar Police Station. The incident occurred around 4:00 pm when the police vehicle was taking a U-turn and was hit by a lorry, according to Sadar Police Station’s duty officer, Sub-inspector Swapna Begum. SI Moshabbir and constables Bitan and Akkas Uddin, who were patrolling from Salna to Mymensingh, were injured in the accident.