JASHORE — A husband and wife died Wednesday in a road accident in Jashore’s Monirampur upazila. The crash occurred when a motorcycle collided head-on with an engine-driven power tiller in the Bakoshpole Bazar area on the Jhikargachha-Monirampur road.
The dead were identified as Ranajit Kumar Das, 49, and his wife Papia Das, 40, of Chandpur village in Monirampur upazila. Ranajit was a lecturer at Bazitpur Shaheed Bir Muktijoddha A R Women’s College in the upazila, and Papia worked as a mechanic at the Department of Public Health Engineering in the same upazila.
Ranajit’s brother, Jibon Kumar Das, said the couple was traveling from their village to a village in Kashimnagar union of Monirampur upazila. Around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, the motorcycle collided head-on with a power tiller coming from the opposite direction. Both were thrown onto the road and seriously injured. Fire service workers took them to the emergency department of Jashore’s 250-bed General Hospital, where doctors declared both dead.
Monirampur Police Station officer-in-charge Bablur Rahman confirmed the accident and said the power tiller driver had fled. The vehicle has been seized, and legal action is being processed, he said.
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