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Seven die in city road crashes

Locals torch vehicle, block road at Agargaon after boy dies

Staff Correspondent
Seven people including an Ansar personnel were killed and at least 30 others wounded in five road accidents in the city in 16 hours till noon yesterday.
Four people were killed and more than 20 people injured when a passenger bus from Gazipur collided head-on with a truck on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway at Joarsahara of Badda at about
5:00am yesterday.
All the four died on the spot. Three of them were identified as bus driver Jalaluddin, 32, truck driver Sabuj Mian, 33, and a passenger Alauddin, 25. Of the injured, 12 were admitted to Combined Military Hospital and seven to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).
Police seized both the bus and the truck. In Agargaon of Kafrul, a microbus ran over 10-year-old Nahid Hasan, a class three student of Sher-e-Bangla Nagor Government High School, at about 12:15pm. He was rushed to the Orthopaedic Hospital with severe head injures and was later referred to the DMCH.
Locals went berserk following the accident. They set fire to a Mirpur-bound passenger bus and blocked the Rokeya Sarani for about one and a half hours causing a traffic jam of about one kilometre on both sides of the road.
Besides them, students, teachers and employees of the school took to the street. They barred the firefighters as they were trying to douse the fire of the burning bus.
Witnesses said the accident happened while Nahid was crossing the road after getting down from his school van. A microbus knocked him down and dragged him for at least 50 feet.
Karuna Sarker, a witness and mother of a schoolboy, told The Daily Star that had the microbus not dragged him along the road, his injuries would not have been 'such serious'.
Police captured the microbus while its driver managed to flee. Locals alleged that the police helped the microbus driver to get away.
When contacted police denied the allegation and said they were trying to hunt down the driver.
Abdul Hasib, a senior teacher of Sher-e-Bangla Nagor Government High School, told The Daily Star at the hospital that they have long been asking the authorities concerned to post a signboard alerting drivers to slow down and set up a speed breaker in front of the school to avert accidents.
In another accident at Sanir Akhra, an Ansar Nayek named Abul Kalam was killed and four policemen were injured when their jeep was rammed from behind by a Chittagong-bound covered van at about 3:50am.
Kalam's head was heavily dashed and he was taken to the DMCH. He succumbed to his injuries at about 9:45am. Injured policemen SubInspector Abdur Rahman Biswas, Constable Momin, Constable Jahangir, and Ansar Abdul Hannan, were undergoing treatment at the same hospital.
Police seized the covered van, but they could not arrest the driver.
Besides, Abdul Hakim, 50, who received a head injury when a truck hit him on Saturday in city's Demra area, died at the DMCH at about 6:00am yesterday. Hakim, a mason by profession, was waiting to catch a bus when the truck slammed him against the road at about 10:00pm.
Earlier at 8:15pm on Saturday, Mohammad Tutul, 16, died on the spot when a CNG auto-rickshaw failed to stop at Dhanmondi 27 Crossing. He too was walking across the road.