5-month-old boy killed in road crash
Pick-up plying wrong side hits 3-wheeler
A five-month-old infant was killed in a road accident on Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover in the city’s Satrasta area early yesterday.
The dead, Md Shihab, had been suffering from severe diarrhoea from the last couple of days and was being taken to Mohakhali’s International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) in a CNG-run auto-rickshaw, said Hannan Mia, sub-inspector of Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station, quoting family members.
Four other passengers, including three of the child’s family members, of the auto-rickshaw were injured when a pickup, allegedly being driven through the wrong side, crashed head-on into the vehicle around 5:15am, the SI added.
Soon after the incident, a pedestrian dialed 999 and sought police help.
Later, a police team went to the spot and sent the victims to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared Shihab dead, SI Hannan said.
The injured -- Shihab’s mother Sharmin, 20, uncle Al Amin, 25, grandmother Moly Begum, 50, and driver of the vehicle Shahadat Hossain, 35 -- were admitted to DMCH.
Doctors claimed Shahadat’s condition to be critical as he had sustained injuries in his chest and head.
Police seized the pickup from the spot, but couldn’t arrest the driver.