At least two people were killed and 12 others injured when a truck collided with a human-hauler at Madhabdi in Narsingdi on Dhaka-Sylhet highway Monday.
The deceased, Nasima, 35, of Towadi village at Narsingdi Sadar upazila, was a passenger of the hauler and Jalil, 45, a vegetable trader of Matra village of Dhaka, was on the truck.
The police and local people said that a Dhaka-bound truck, loaded with vegetables, ran into the Narsingdi-bound human-hauler coming from Purinda at Birampur under Madhabdi union of Narsingdi Sadar upazila in the morning.
The local people took the victims to Narsingdi Sadar Hospital, where the doctors declared Nasima and Jalil dead.
Eight of the injured, namely Tara, Momen, Ripon, Fajila, Salam, Yasin, Badal and Sourabh, were referred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital as their condition deteriorated, while the rest got admitted to the Sadar Hospital.
The bodies were sent to the Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
A case was filed with the Narsingdi Sadar police.
Source : New Age
