Two motorcyclists were killed and five passengers injured around 1 a.m. on Tuesday night, dated November 11 in police reports, in two separate road crashes along the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
Police identified the victims as Babul Kanti Dey, 65, son of Jatindra Mohan from Purba Maizpara in Dulahazara, and Monirul Khaled, 41, son of Mizanur Rahman from Maizpara in Khutakhali union.
According to police and local accounts, a bus struck Babul Kanti Dey’s motorcycle near a bridge while he was heading home from Dulahazara market, in front of his son Roni Dey who was riding another motorcycle behind him. In a separate crash in Khutakhali, motorcyclist Monirul Khaled suffered fatal injuries.
Sub-Inspector Khokon Chandra Das of Malumghat Highway Police Station in Dulahazara said officers rushed the injured to Malumghat Memorial Christian Hospital, where both motorcyclists died while undergoing treatment, and seized the bus and motorcycle involved.
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