RAB member, two others killed in Patuakhali road crash

PATUAKHALI, Oct 11 (UNB): Three people including a member of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) were killed and 50 others injured in a head-on-collision between a bus and a minibus of Rab on Barisal-Patuakhali-Kuakata highway at Fatullah Bus Stand in Sadar upazila of Patuakhali district on Saturday morning.

The deceased were identified as Piash, 2, Alim, 32, assistant sub-inspector and driver of the vehicle of RAB and Afroza Begum, 35.

Commanding officer of Patuakhali RAB Squadron leader Md Rashedul Islam, said a picnic bus of RAB carrying 13 people was heading towards Kuakata from Barishal.

The accident occurred around 8:30 pm when the bus of 'Dhansiri Paribahan' from Kuakata collided head-on with the picnic bus of Rab, killing one child and 52 others injured, said Md Imtiaz, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station.

Among the injured, the driver of the Rab vehicle and the woman died on the way to Barishal hospital.