Mirzapur crash toll reaches four

The death toll from Mirzapur road accident rose to four as one of the injured persons has died on way to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, police and hospital sources said. The dead is Rustam Ali, 55, an engineer of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. He succumbed to his injuries on way to Dhaka from Kumudini Hospital in Mirzapur Upazila. Earlier, Rustam’s wife Ferdous Jesmin, 45, their son ‘Sadnan’, 17, and Rustam’s car driver Shahidul Islam Sarker, 35, died on the spot as truck collided head-on with their car in Tangail's Mirzapur Upazila. car on Dhaka-Tangail highway, near Dulla Mansur, on Friday afternoon. Rustam along with his family was going to Dhaka from Naogaon, police said. The couple’s younger son ‘Rafsan’, 12, and niece Tasnim Nabila, 20, were injured. They were sent to Dhaka for treatment, police said, according to a news agency.