Top primary edn official killed in a road crash
The director general of the National Academy for Primary Education (NAPE) was killed and five others were injured when their microbus collided head-on with a truck on the Chittagong-Khagrachhari highway in Fatikchhari yesterday.
DG Fazlur Rahman, 55, was pronounced dead at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) around 9:00am, said Dr Sagar Nandi of the emergency ward.
The accident took place in Barioyarhat area of Fatikchhari around 7:30am, said Md Abu Yusuf Mia, officer-in-charge of Fatikchhari Police Station.
Police seized the truck, but its driver fled the scene, he added.
The DG, who came to the city from Mymensingh on Friday night, was heading for Khagrachhari Primary Training Institute (PTI) to attend the concluding ceremony of 26-day Diploma in Primary Education (DPEd) programme, said PTI officials.
Fazlur along with others left the Chittagong Circuit House for Khagrachhari around 6:00am.
The injured are Superintendent of Chittagong PTI Rafiqul Islam Talukdar, his wife Moshfeka Binte Sultana, also Patiya PTI superintendent, PTI staff Haiqul Islam, Doyal Hori Deb and microbus driver Ali Hossain.
CMCH sources said the condition of Rafiqul and Doyal was critical. Doyal was later shifted to the ICU of Max Hospital.
Fazlur, a joint secretary, was a member of BCS (administration) cadre of the 1982 (special) batch. He joined the post of NAPE DG on January 19, 2015.
He left behind his wife and a son, a senior ASP at the Rab headquarters said.
His body was scheduled to arrive in the capital last night for a namaj-e-janaza at Baganbari Jame Masjid in Malibagh at 10:00pm.
This morning, the body will be taken to Mymensingh for another namaj-e-janaza before his burial in Gouripur.
Our Mymensingh correspondent reports: Fazlur's family members and relatives became speechless after hearing the death news.
Born in Bir Pashchimpara village in Gouripur, he grew up in Mymensingh town, family sources said.
Eldest of five brothers and one sister, Fazlur took the helm of the family after the death of his father Abdul Kader, a retired official of Bangladesh Oil Corporation, in 1982.
“He was our guardian and a well-wisher,” said the NAPE DG's younger brother Lutfur Rahman Monzu.
“We lost our father 35 years ago, but never faced any trouble as he took care of us with fatherly affection,” added Lutfur.
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