Daughter, parents killed in Thakurgaon road accident
A couple and their 14-year-old daughter died after the motorcycle the family was riding collided head-on with a bus on the Thakurgaon-Baliadanga road in the district's Sadar upazila of this morning.
The deceased are Masudur Rahman, 55, his wife Hamida Begum, 45, and their daughter Meher Negar Simi, reports our local correspondent quoting Kamal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Thakurgaon Sadar Police Station.
Quoting witnesses, the police official said the couple were taking their daughter to a madrasa on the motorcycle as her annual examination was going on.
A Dhaka-bound bus of Hanif Paribahan collided with the motorbike in Bildangi area, leaving Hamida dead on the spot and her husband and daughter critically injured, the OC said.
Locals rushed Masudur and his daughter to Thakurgaon Adhunik Sadar Hospital. They were later declared dead by the doctors, said the OC, adding that the driver of the bus fled the scene with the vehicle.
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