Microbus driver dies in Panchagarh crash
Saturday, 20 September 2014
A man was killed and five other people were injured in an accident in Atoari Upazila in Panchagarh on Saturday. The dead is Omar Ali, 35, driver of a microbus and son of late Tamizuddin, a resident of South Durgapur village in the Upazila. Police and locals said a log-laden tractor hit a microbus coming from the opposite direction in front of Satkhamar Islamia Fazil Madrasa on the Thakurgaon-Panchagarh Highway, leaving microbus driver Ali dead on the spot and five others injured around 12:45am. The injured, including Abdal Adil Alvi Rubel, representative of Rangpur division unit of Bangladesh Manabadhikar Bastabayan Sangstha, were rushed to Thakurgaon Modern Hospital, according to UNB.