Three people, including two postal department employees, were killed when a postal department covered van crashed into a stone-laden truck parked on the Sylhet-Dhaka highway.
The accident happened at about 3am on Wednesday night (11 November) in the Noapara Kawsarnagar area of Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj.
The dead are Jasim (40), driver of the postal department’s covered van and son of the late Khairuddin of Adampur village in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar; postal employee Md Majnu Mia (54), son of Mainuddin Mia of Kakjor village in Ghior upazila of Manikganj; and Md Ripon Mia (23), son of Santosh Shabdakar of Surabi village in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar.
Highway police said a Dhaka-bound truck loaded with stones had broken down at about 2am in the Kawsarnagar area of the Dhaka-Sylhet highway and was standing at the roadside. At about 3am a medium-sized covered van of the Bangladesh Post Office carrying mail and parcels, coming from the same direction, slammed into the back of the truck. Three people in the covered van, including the driver, were seriously injured.
Local people rescued them and took them to Madhabpur Upazila Health Complex, where the doctor on duty declared all three dead.
Md Anisul Haque, officer-in-charge (OC) of Shaistaganj Highway Police Station, said legal action over the incident is under way.
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