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Road Accidents

7 killed in Ctg, 3 in Manikganj

Staff Correspondent, ctg
At least seven people, including six of a family, were killed while 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a microbus at Patiya upazila headquarters on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway early yesterday.
The victims, all passengers of the microbus, were returning to Goirala village of Patiya after attending a pre-marriage programme at the bride's house at Kala Ujan in Lohagara upazila.
Meanwhile, agitating people blocked Dhaka-Aricha highway protesting deaths of three people in a road accident at Golora under Saturia police station in Manikganj yesterday morning.
In Chittagong, the deceased were identified asTejendra Lal Dhar, 65, Babul Dhar, 55, Bidhu
Dhar, 50, Mridul Dhar, 40, Parikshit Dhar, 52, Jadu Dhar, 40, ail of them hailed from Goirala of Patiya, and microbus driver Shahidul Alam, 20.
The marriage ceremony, which was scheduled to be held yesterday night, was cancelled after the tragic accident that left six close relatives of the bridegroom dead.
Police and witnesses said the accident occurred at about 4:00am when the microbus from Lohagara upazila collided head on with the Cox's Bazar-bound truck in front of Shahchan Aulia Mazar Gate near Padva Fire Station.
Four persons--Tejendra Lal. Babul. Bidhu and microbus driver Shahidul-died on the spot.
The injured were rushed to Chinagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) while Mridul, Parikshit and Jadu succumbed to their injuries on the way to the hospital.
Of the injured, Sadhan Sen. 35, Chandan Dhar, 34, Manu Dhar, 40, Ashim Dhar, 30, video man Md Didarul Islam, 20, band-party members Babu Das, 22, Bappu Das, 25 and TUtul Das, 16, were admitted toCMCH.
Another injured Sanjoy Dhar. 30, was first taken to CMCH and then shifted to a private clinic in the city in a critical condition.
Chandan Dhar, who was lying on the floor in front of ward No 28 of CMCH with fractured legs, said their microbus was on right track but the speeding truck hit their vehicle all of a sudden.
Mintu Kumar Dhar, the bridegroom who lost five of his uncles and a cousin in the accident, said he could not believe how the most joyful day of his life turned into a day of tragedy.
In Manikganj, people blocked the highway for more than one and a half hours from 10:00am, disrupting traffic
movement on thebusy route.
The vehicular movement resumed around 11:30am after Manikganj Superintendent of Police Sheikh Muhammad Maruf Hasan and Saturia Upazila Parisad Chairman Advocate Abdul Mazld went to the spot and assured local people of setting up a speed-breaker there.
The dead were identified as Phool Dewan, 60, son of Lal Chan Dewan, Shukur Ali, 45, son of Sahabaj Ali of Baherkanta-Kamta village under Saturia Police Station, and Yusuf Ali, 35, son of Aftab Hossain of Airpara village under Shibalaya Police Station in Manikganj.
Mazharul Haque, officerin-charge of Saturia Police Station, said the accident occurred around 9:45am when a Paturia-bound bus of Eagle Paribahan from Dhaka skidded off the highway and ran over three passers-by, killing them on the spot.
The bodies were sent to Manikganj sadar hospital for autopsy. Police seized the bus but its driver and helper managed to flee.