Sixth-grader killed in road crash
A sixth-grader was killed and her classmate was injured in a road accident at Gouripur Madhyabazar area in Mymensingh yesterday.
The deceased was identified as Tithi Pal (13), from Gouripur. The injured friend was identified as Rupa Chakraborty, reports our Mymensingh correspondent.
Tithi, a student of Gouripur Pilot Girls High School, got GPA-5 in her Primary Education Completion Examination (PECE) from a local primary school last year, said police.
Quoting locals, Officer-in-Charge of Gouripur Police Station Md Borhan Uddin Khan said the accident took place around 7am when a sand-laden truck ran over Tithi and her classmate Rupa while they were going to attend coaching classes.
The collision killed Tithi on the spot and critically injured Rupa.
Hearing of the incident, locals rushed the spot and took Rupa to Gouripur Upazila Health Complex. They also caught truck driver Humayun and his helper Mohammad Robin and handed them over to police after roughing them up. Police have seized the truck, said the OC.
The incident prompted locals and students to put up a barricade in the area for an hour. On information, police went to the spot and brought the situation under control.
After taking them to the hospital for first aid, police produced Humayun and Robin before a Mymensingh court that sent them to jail in a case lodged by the deceased’s father.
Meanwhile in another accident in Cumilla, a retired police officer died after he was hit by a speeding motorcycle yesterday afternoon, our Cumilla correspondent reports.
Deceased Sekandar Ali (75) hailed from Adamsar Khusbash of Barura upazila.
The accident occurred as Sekandar was crossing the Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Kabila near Eastern Medical College Hospital around 2:45pm. Critically injured after the motorcycle hit him, he was rushed to a local hospital in Cumilla city.
On-duty doctors at the hospital declared him dead around 4:30pm, said Alamgir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Mainamoti Highway Police Station.
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