A school student was killed in a head-on collision between a motorcycle and a pickup in Shailkupa upazila, Jhenaidah.
The accident happened in front of Bhatai Government College on the Jhenaidah-Kushtia highway at midday on Monday (29 June).
The student, from Bhatai village in the upazila, had sat this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination from Bhatai Secondary School.
According to local residents, a pickup travelling from Jhenaidah collided head-on with a motorcycle in front of Bhatai Government College at midday on Monday, killing the student, who was riding the motorcycle.
An eyewitness, Yadav Kumar, said the student had insisted his father buy the motorcycle two months ago and had died on the spot in the collision with the pickup while riding it to Jhenaidah.
Jahanur Ali, officer-in-charge of Jhenaidah’s Arappur Highway police station, said the body had been recovered and sent to the morgue of Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital for an autopsy, and that the pickup had been seized.
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