Three killed, 20 injured in Khulna road mishaps

KHULNA, Oct 22: Three people, including a truck driver and two motorcyclists, were killed and 15-20 bus passengers injured in two separate road accidents at Atharomile on the Khulna-Satkhira highway in Dumuria Upazila on Wednesday.

The deceased were Jinnat Mia, 35, a truck driver from Munshiganj, and Abdur Rouf Gazi, 43, and Yunus Sardar, 25, both residents of Narnia Village in Dumuria.
Officer-in-Charge of Kharnia Highway Police Station Munshi Parvez Ahmed confirmed the deaths.

In the afternoon accident, a truck belonging to Crown Cement Company collided head-on with a Khulna-bound passenger bus travelling towards Satkhira after unloading cement. The truck veered off the road, while the bus plunged into a water-filled ditch beside the highway. Jinnat was rescued in critical condition and taken to Dumuria Upazila Health Complex, where he was declared dead.

In the other accident, Rouf, a fish wholesaler at Chuknagar Bazar, and Yunus, his employee, were killed when a Dhaka-Satkhira-bound Emad Paribahan bus hit their motorcycle near Atharomile bus stand around 1:30 am.
The two were returning home after paying fish farmers their outstanding dues. Both suffered severe head injuries and died on the spot.