Two people, one of them a two-month-old baby, were killed and three others injured in separate road accidents on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
Both accidents happened in the Goyalmara area of Harbang union on Sunday (8 November), one in the morning and one around midday.
The dead are Mahbubur Rahman, 65, son of the late Abul Khayer of Chhoiyadabad in Chhadaha union, Satkania upazila, and Arham, the two-month-old son of Borhan Uddin of Goyalmara in Harbang union, Chakaria.
The injured are Arham’s mother Lucky, 35, his aunt Urmi Akter, 25, and the auto-rickshaw driver Zafar Alam, 45.
According to local sources, Mahbubur Rahman was riding a motorcycle from Aziznagar towards Satkania in the morning when a goods truck ran him over beside the Harbang petrol pump and fled. Local people took him to Chakaria Government Hospital, where the doctor on duty declared him dead.
Around 12 noon the same day, the second accident happened in Goyalmara. Arham and his family were returning home in an auto-rickshaw after treatment at Chakaria Government Hospital when a truck hit the vehicle on the highway. The baby was thrown from the auto-rickshaw and died.
Sergeant Zakibul Hasan, in charge of Chiringa Highway Police Station, confirmed both deaths. He said a motorcyclist named Mahbubur Rahman was killed when a goods truck ran him over beside the Harbang petrol pump in the morning, and a two-month-old boy named Arham died in a separate accident in Goyalmara the same day.
He said the bodies would be handed over to the families after legal procedures.
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