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Three of a family among 4 killed in Pabna road accident


Published : 18 Dec 2020 08:53 PM

Four people, including three members of the same family, were killed as a truck hit an auto-rickshaw on Bheramara-Patharghata road at Rangania area under Bhangura upazila in Pabna on Friday. The accident took place at about 2:00 pm.

Three of the deceased are-- Md Emon Hossain, 18, and Imran Hossain, 16, sons of Abdur Rashid of Char Bhangura area, and their cousin Chumma Khatun, 12, daughter of Shafiqul Islam from the same village.

Anwar Hossain, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Bhangura police station confirmed the matter.  He said a freight truck from Faridpur hit the auto-rickshaw, leaving three of rickshaw's passengers dead on the spot and two others including the driver seriously injured. The injured was brought to Upazila Health Complex where the on duty doctors declared another person dead. 

Police, however, seized the truck from Bangura railway station area but its driver and helper managed to flee the scene, said the OC.