A CORRESPONDENT, Rajbari

A family’s wedding festivities have ended in tragedy as the groom and his brother died in a road accident about an hour after his ‘Gaye Holud’ programme.

Saiful Islam, 27, the groom, and his elder brother Monirul Islam, 32, died in the early hours of yesterday when a soil-laden truck hit their motorcycle on the Dhaka-Khulna highway’s Nobuosimuddinpara area under Rajbari’s Goalanda upazila.

Both of them fell off the motorbike.

Monirul died on the spot, while a critically injured Saiful, who used to work on a project for the Department of Youth Development in Rajbari, was taken to Goalanda Upazila Health Complex where on-duty doctors declared him dead.

“The accident has destroyed our family. My brother was supposed to wear the groom’s attire tomorrow [Friday] -- his body is now wrapped in a shroud,” said their grief-stricken brother Shamiul, whose own wedding was supposed to take place yesterday.

Shamiul and Saiful’s ‘Gaye Holud’ programmes were held jointly on Wednesday evening at the yard of their family home in Khankanapur village under Rajbari sadar upazila.

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