BNP leader Ilias Fakir, who was injured when 10 vehicles collided on the Dhaka-Barishal highway at Muksudpur in Gopalganj, has died while being treated in Dhaka. He died on Friday afternoon. More than 100 passengers were injured in the crash, according to local sources.
At around 10:30am on Friday, a private car and a passenger bus first collided head-on near the Boroitola bus stand on the highway.
Buses, trucks, private cars and engine-driven easy-bikes then collided one after another. Four passenger buses, two private cars, two trucks and two engine-driven easy-bikes were damaged.
Ilias Fakir was member secretary of the BNP’s Raghdi union unit. After the crash he was sent to Dhaka for better treatment.
Muksudpur police station’s officer-in-charge (OC), Abdullah Al Mamun, confirmed the crash. Between 20 and 25 seriously injured people were rescued and sent to hospitals in Faridpur and Bhanga, he said. Traffic on the highway was halted for about an hour after the crash and is now running normally.
Two vehicles in the convoy of Selimuzzaman Selim, member of parliament for Gopalganj-1, were damaged in the crash. It happened near the Boroitola bus stand as the convoy entered Muksudpur on its way from Dhaka to his constituency. The MP’s own car was also slightly damaged; he was unhurt. BNP leader Ilias Fakir, who was in another car, was seriously injured.
MP Selimuzzaman Selim expressed deep grief at the death of Ilias Fakir and offered his condolences to the bereaved family.
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