5 cops hurt in Comilla road accident
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Five policemen were injured as a truck collided head-on with a pickup van carrying them at Beltoli at Sadar Dakshin upazila in Comilla on Tuesday. The injured were identified as Sergeant Anwar Hossain, constables Shamsuddin, Ruhul Amin, Abdul Hamid and Mihir Kanti of Moynamati Highway Police outpost. Officer-in-charge of the police outpost Mashiur Rahman said that the Dhaka-bound truck collided with the pickup van carrying a petrol team of police on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in the morning. Five cops were injured in the accident which took place around 7:30am. The injured were first taken to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Comilla and later shifted to Comilla Medical College Hospital. Of them, condition of two police men was stated to be critical. The truck was seized but its driver managed to flee the scene, according to UNB.