4 of a family killed as bus hits auto-rickshaw in Tangail

Four members of a family were killed and two others injured after a bus rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Tangail's Sadar upazila today.

The deceased were identified as Md Al Amin (54), headmaster of Bhadra Shimul Dakkhinpara Government Primary School and a resident of Pashchimpara village of the district's Bhuapur upazila; his wife Sheuli Khatun (42), an assistant teacher of Kukadair Government Primary School in the same upazila, Al Amin's father Sohrab Ali (75) and his mother Saleha Begum (70).

Al Amin's sister Hazera Begum and driver of the auto-rickshaw Ferdous Tarafder were also injured in the accident. They were taken to Tangail General Hospital, said Matiur Rahman, a sub-inspector of Elenga Highway Police Outpost.

SI Matiur said the speeding bus hit the Tangail town-bound auto-rickshaw on the Rabna Bypass area of the Dhaka-Tangail highway at around 10:00am, leaving all five passengers of the three-wheeler and its driver injured.

Locals rushed them to the Tangail General Hospital where on-duty doctors declared Sheuli Begum dead.

Al Amin and his parents later succumbed to their injuries while being taken to Dhaka for better treatment, said the police official. 

Al Amin's brother Nazrul Islam said his brother and other family members were going to Tangail town for an appointment with a doctor for the ailing Saleha Begum.

Police said they seized the passenger bus but its driver and helpers managed to flee.