Three of a family killed in Barguna road crash
At least three of a family, including a mother and her 10-year-old son, were killed and four more injured in a tragic road accident in Barguna’s Amtali upazila town.
The accident took place around 11:30am yesterday at the AK School intersection of Amtali upazila on the Amtali-Patuakhali highway of Barguna.
The deceased -- Nupur Begum, 30, resident of Amtali municipality, her son Nishat, 10, and her 14-year-old niece Lamia -- were killed when the Amtali-bound passenger bus lost control on the highway. The injured were identified as Nupur’s daughter Mamataz Begum, 6, Md. Abdul Jabbar, 54, and Shahabuddin Mridha, 56, of Chaitabunia village of Chawra union and Rubel Musulli, 30, of Chandra village. Police have seized the bus but its driver managed to flee, confirmed Amtali police station’s Officer-in-Charge Abul Bashar.
Locals and police said that a bus named ‘Mayer Doa Paribahan’ was carrying passengers from Barishal to Amtali via Patuakhali on Saturday morning. The bus ploughed into pedestrians on the footpath at the AK School intersection after losing control. Nupur Begum who was standing on the footpath with her two children and niece, were all killed on the spot.
The bus first rammed into a microbus and a battery-run auto-rickshaw on the side of the road before hitting the pedestrians.
Immediately after the accident, locals took those killed and injured to Amtali Upazila Health Complex. Mamataz Begum and Abdul Jabbar, critically injured, were sent to Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital for better treatment.
The deceased Nupur Begum’s mother, Ambia Begum, said in tears that Nupur had taken Nishat, Mamataz, and Lamia to visit a relative’s house in the Gazipur bazaar area. They arrived back in Amtali by an autorickshaw and were looking for another rickshaw to go home when the bus struck the footpath.
On news of the accident, the relatives rushed to the Amtali hospital. Ambia Begum, mourning her daughter and grandchildren, kept saying, “Where is my ma (Nupur)?”and ‘’Bring me my grandchildren.”
In the emergency room of Amtali hospital, six-year-old Mamataz asks for her mother and cries. Relatives have not yet let her know that her mother is dead.
Lamia was an SSC examinee this year, from Tazem Ali School and College of Haldia Union. Nupur’s husband Abul Hossain works in Singapore.
The dead bodies have been handed over without autopsy as per the request of their families and a case on the accident is under process, added OC Bashar.
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