OUR CORRESPONDENT, Pabna

Akhi Khatun and her eight-year-old son Alif Hossain were on their way home from Pabna’s Pakshi upazila on Sunday.

What was supposed to be just a journey back home ended in tragedy when a motorcycle hit their three-wheeler on the Pabna-Kushtia highway in Ishwardi upazila.

On impact, the child slipped from his mother’s lap and fell onto the road. His mother, Akhi, and Baki Billah, 35, the motorcyclist whose bike struck the three-wheeler, rushed to rescue him. Just then, a speeding truck ran over all three. Alif and Baki died on the spot. Akhi survived with injuries.

Contacted by The Daily Star yesterday, Pakshi Highway Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge Md Nannu Khan narrated the incident, citing eyewitnesses. “The accident occurred in Koloikandi Bottola area around 9:00pm.... Upon receiving the information, police and firefighters rushed to the spot, recovered the bodies, rescued the injured mother, and sent her to Ishwardi Upazila Health Complex.”

He added that the truck driver fled the scene with the vehicle and that police are conducting drives to seize the truck and arrest the driver. “The child’s father, Jahid Hossain, is preparing to file a case in this regard.”

Meanwhile, Akhi is expected to return home today, according to the OC.