A deadly accident occurred on Friday as the microbus collided head-on with a truck at Shibpur in Narsingdi. The collision resulted in the tragic loss of seven lives and left four others injured. — bdnews24.com Seven microbus passengers who died after the vehicle collided head-on with a truck at Narsingdi's Shibpur Upazila were all employees of a knitting factory based in Savar, reports bdnews24.com.
A group of 11 workers, along with the factory's driver, left Savar for a trip to Sylhet, but met with the accident around 2:30 am on Friday.
"Seven of them died in the incident and four are receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital," said SB Knitting Ltd's Manager Mir Shehab Uddin.
The dead have been identified as Al Amin Khan, 27, and Babul Hossain, 37, from Gazipur, Mir Nazmul Haque Sabuj, 30, from Tangail, Al Amin, 29, from Jhalakathi, Abdul Awal, 37, from Madaripur, Raihan Sikder alias Ariyan, 24, from Barishal and Raju Ahmed, 36, from Jamalpur. Their bodies have been kept at Narsingdi Sadar Hospital's morgue.
The injured workers are Sakib Ahmed, 28, Parvez, 29, Doyel, 22, and Mithun, 35. The families of the victims identified the bodies at the morgue.
Steps are being taken to hand over the bodies to their families, Narsingdi Sadar Police Station chief Harun Ar Rashid said.
The highway police said a microbus was on its way to Sylhet when it collided with a stone-laden truck coming from the opposite direction on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Shibpur's Ghashirdiya.
Five people died at the scene, while six others were taken to the Narsingdi Sadar Hospital in critical condition. Two of them died in the hospital.
Authorities believe the collision took place when the microbus tried to overtake another vehicle at a high speed, said Gazipur Region Superintendent of Police Mostafizur Rahman.
Police seized the truck and detained the driver. Legal action will be taken over the incident, he added.
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