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BRAHMANBARIA-ROAD-ACCIDENT
4 of a family killed in Brahmanbaria road accident
BRAHMANBARIA, Nov 6, 2020 (BSS) – Four members of a family were killed and four others injured in a collision between a truck, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a private car on the Cumilla-Sylhet highway in Syedabad area under Kasba upazila of the district this afternoon.
The deceased were identified as Nabalok Miah, 72, of Jatrapur village under Muradnagar upazila in Cumilla district, his wife Ayesha Khatun, 60, his younger brother’s wife Fatema, 55, and granddaughter Nadia, 5.
Police said the Cumilla-bound truck hit a private car coming from the opposite direction in Syedabad area around 2:30pm. Later the truck hit the auto-rickshaw and fell into a roadside ditch as its driver lost control over the vehicle, leaving all eight passengers of the auto-rickshaw injured.
The injured were sent to Brahmanbaria General Hospital where on-duty doctors declared four of them dead, said Mahbubur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Khantihata Highway Police Station.
Later, the injured people were referred to Dhaka as their condition deteriorated.
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