6 cops, official hurt in Barisal BB cash van crash
Six policemen and a Bangladesh Bank official were injured as a cash transfer vehicle of the central bank crashed with a truck on the outskirts of Barisal city today.
The van crashed with the sand-laden truck on the Dhaka-Barisal highway near the office of Barisal range deputy inspector general of police (DIG) at Ichakathi around 11:00am, reports our local correspondent.
Sattyendranath Roy, assistant manager of Bangladesh Bank Barisal Branch, said he was along with six-man police escort on the way to Sonali Bank Shariatpur treasury from Barisal this morning when the incident took place. “We sustained minor injuries.”
The trip was later cancelled and the money was preserved at the bank’s vault, he added.
Humayun Kabir, deputy inspector of police in Barisal range, endorsed the incident and said the police personals were given first-aid treatment. The truck was detained.
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