13 day labourers killed in road crash
Like any other day, 22 day labourers, of Baro Baldia of Chuadanga, were traveling to their workplace yesterday on a locally-made engine-run human haulier when it collided head-on with a speeding truck.
The impact caused many of the overloaded human haulier to be tossed away and fall under the wheels of the truck. As a result nine were killed on the spot. The rest with severe injuries were rushed to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital where four of them died later.
According to witnesses, the truck driver might be sleepy while driving. He didn't even brake after the truck hit the lorry, they said.
Quite a large number of people from the village in Damurhuda upazila travel everyday on such locally-made vehicles to different brick kilns or construction sites in adjacent Alamdanga upazila of the district to work as day labourers, said Zakaria Alam, chairman of Parkrishnapur Union Parishad of Damurhuda.
They leave the village in the morning and return together after work.
Yesterday's accident took place at Joyrampur village on Chuadanga-Darshana road around 7.45am. The lorry was rented by the labourers to go to a brick kiln at Munshiganj village in Alamdanga.
Officer-in-Charge of Damurhuda Police Station Abu Jihad Md Fakhrul Alam Khan on phone said the human haulier was carrying 13 more passengers than its capacity.
After the clash, the truck dragged the lorry around 100 yards away.
Local people rushed to the spot and took the injured to the hospital.
The deceased were identified as lorry driver Zaj Mia, 42, Belal Hossain, 17, Rafiqul, 45, Lal Mohammad, 45, Abdar Ali, 45, Billal Uddin, 42, Abu Bakkar, 55, Hujjat Ali alias Nandi, 50, Nazir Hossain, 60, Shanto, 23, Hafizur, 34, Shafiqul, 25 and Aram Ali, 39.
Shanto's uncle Naziur Rahman said he left behind two children -- the son is four-year-old while the daughter is only two.
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