3 killed in road mishaps in 2 dists

Three people were killed and one was injured in separate road accidents in Jhenaidah and Gopalganj districts on Tuesday.
JHENAIDAH: A Chhatra Dal leader from Chuadanga was killed and a woman injured after their motorcycle crashed on the Jhenaidah-Chuadanga highway on Tuesday night.

The accident occurred around 9 pm in front of the Veterinary College in the Halidhani area when the motorcycle lost control while crossing a speed breaker at high speed, police and locals said.

The victim, Aminul Islam Sourav, joint convener of Chuadanga Municipal Chhatra Dal, was travelling towards Jhenaidah with Ria Khatun when the motorcycle skidded off the road. Both sustained serious injuries and were taken to Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital, where doctors declared Sourav dead. Ria is receiving treatment.

Sourav was a resident of Cinema Hall Para in Chuadanga town. According to local sources, he and Ria had recently become acquainted and were travelling to Jhenaidah for an outing.

GOPALGANJ: Two people, including an 85-year-old freedom fighter, were killed in separate road accidents on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Gopalganj on Tuesday.

The deceased were Abdul Sattar Sardar, 85, a freedom fighter from Madaripur, and Obaidur Khandaker, 35, a resident of Gopalganj Sadar.

According to SM Muntasir Mahmud, Officer-in-Charge of Bhatiapara Highway Police Station, Sardar was travelling in a pickup van carrying goods to his son’s home in Mongla when it lost control and rammed into the rear of another pickup near an eye hospital in Ghonapara in the early hours of Tuesday. He was critically injured and later declared dead at Gopalganj 250-bed General Hospital.

In a separate incident, Khandaker was run over by a speeding truck near Bijoypasha bus stand and died on the spot. Police recovered his body and sent it to the hospital morgue.