BANGLADESH NEWS
Twelve people including nine of a family were killed when a microbus carrying them collided head-on with a bus on the Dhaka-Mawa highway at South Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital Wednesday morning.
Another injured relative of the deceased was undergoing treatment at the capital's Square Hospital.
The victims who used to live in Indira Road and Razabazar areas of the capital were going to their village home in Shariatpur, said Abdul Latif, a relative of the deceased.
Of the deceased, nine are the family members of Zakir Hossain Sardar, the chairman of Arshinagar Union Parishad in Bhederganj upazila of Shariatpur, said Rafiqul Islam Sheikh, additional superintended of police of Dhaka district.
They are Zikir's wife Shahnaj Begum Baby, 45; his son Babu, 22, a BBA final year student of North South University; his daughter Lubab, 12, a class VIII student of Botsli Home Orphanage in Tejgaon area; his two sisters – Mina, 45, and Rozina, 35; Rozina's husband Lanin, 37, an IT officer of Motijheel branch of South East Bank; her seven-year-old son Iash and two-and-half- years-old daughter Ishra; and Zakir's another niece Tazria, 12.
The remaining are -- Moni and Khushi -- two housemaids of the deceased and microbus driver Sohel Rana.
The accident occurred around 5:45am when a Shariatpur-bound microbus packed with 13 people collided head-on with an oncoming bus of Sakura Paribahan at Rajendrapur in South Keraniganj, the OC said.
The microbus which carries a sticker of executive magistrate of Dhaka City Corporation skidded off the highway and fell into a roadside ditch during the accident, the OC added.
Abdul Latif, a cousin of Zakir who rushed to the spot from his Razabazar residence after hearing the news of the accident, said he had no clue how his deceased relatives managed this micro for travelling to Shariatpur.
Baby, Mina and Rozina were going to their village home with their sons and daughters after they got summer vacation from their educational institutions, Latif added.
Nine people died on the spot while the others succumbed to their injuries at Mitford Hospital and Square Hospital.
On information, police rushed to the spot, recovered the bodies and sent those to Mitford Hospital for autopsy.
The driver and helper of the bus managed to flee the scene immediately after the accident. Police later seized the vehicle.
The bus was coming towards the capital from Barisal, the OC added.
According to the news published in The Daily Star from May 1 to 30, a total of 148 people including Bibhas Chandra Saha, the chief crime reporter of the English daily The Independent, were killed in road accidents across the country. Of them, 24 died in the capital.
In the last four months till April, a total of 187 road accidents were took place in different areas of the capital where 133 people died, according to the Traffic Control Department of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Sources in the department said they prepared the data based on first information reports filed with different police stations following road accidents in the capital.
Last year, the number of road casualty in the country was 2,467 while the number of the vehicles involved was 12,226. Of them, 1,063 were buses and 801 trucks, according to the Accident Research Institute (ARI) of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
ARI sources said they had prepared the report based on police records, according to which 3,656 accidents occurred in 2008 while 2,802 in 2009 and 2,437 in 2010.
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