Schoolteacher killed in Satkhira road accident

A schoolteacher was killed and her husband seriously injured after a truck hit their motorcycle at Mollার Mor in Satkhira Sadar upazila on Monday morning. Police seized the truck following the accident.

The deceased, Shamima Nasrin, was an ICT teacher at Bharukhali Secondary School. She was the daughter of Md Jalal Uddin of Baikari village.

According to Shariful Islam, a sub-inspector of Satkhira Sadar Police Station, Shamima was travelling to school on her husband Abdul Majid’s motorcycle after leaving her father’s house.

When they were turning left at the road near Mollabari Mor, their motorcycle collided with a truck coming from the opposite direction. Shamima fell off the motorcycle and sustained severe head injuries, dying at the scene.

Locals rescued Abdul Majid, who was seriously injured, and took him to a clinic in Satkhira.

The truck driver fled the scene, but police seized the vehicle and handed it over to the custody of Baikari Union Parishad. Legal action will be taken over the incident, the police official said.

-AJM