Two people, including a teacher’s wife and a government employee, have died in separate road accidents in Thakurgaon within the last 24 hours.
On Friday afternoon, Ranju Begum, 35, wife of a teacher, was fatally struck by a truck near Uttara Bazar on the Ruhia-Atwari road. She was riding a motorcycle with her husband, Rafiqul Islam, a teacher at Kashalgaon Chinikala Madrasa in Sadar Upazila, and their daughter, Arnika. They were travelling to her father’s house in the nearby Atwari Bazar. Witnesses said that as they passed through a narrow gap between parked rickshaws and the truck approaching from the opposite direction, the daughter fell off the motorcycle onto the road. At that moment, the truck hit Ranju Begum, killing her instantly. Her husband and daughter were injured but survived.
Separately, on Thursday evening, Bishwajit Barman, 35, died in a bicycle accident at Jhaljhali Pond area in Dholarhat Union of Sadar Upazila. Local people took him to Thakurgaon 250-bed General Hospital, where he was declared dead by doctors. Bishwajit, from Dharmapur village, was an assistant agricultural officer at the Agriculture Extension Office in Haripur Upazila.
Separate cases have been filed at Ruhia Police Station in connection with both incidents.
