Three killed in separate Sylhet road accidents

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Jaintiapur Correspondent : Three people including an infant were killed and ten others injured in two separate road accidents on the Sylhet-Tamabil Highway in Jaintiapur upazila on Saturday.

At around 12:15 pm, a Jaflong-bound tourist bus collided with a Sylhet-bound stone-laden truck in the Ferighat area under Jaintiapur upazila, injuring several bus passengers.

Tamabil Highway Police and Jaintiapur Station Police rescued the injured and sent them to MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, where two of them succumbed to their injuries.

One of the deceased was identified as Hasan Pramanik, 40, a resident of Kalukhali area in Rajbari district while the identity of the deceased woman could not be known immediately.

However, five others injured in the incident are currently admitted to the hospital.

It was learned that a group of tourists from Rajbari had arrived in Sylhet for a six-day trip. On Saturday, they boarded a bus heading towards Jaflong when the stone-laden truck rammed into their bus, causing it to veer off into the roadside mud and resulting in the casualties.

At around 12:30pm, a head-on collision between two private cars occurred near the Biraimara Bridge on the Sylhet-Tamabil Highway, leaving four to five passengers from both vehicles injured.

Rushed to the MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, on-duty doctors declared three-month-old Ayat dead. He is a son of Hasanuzzaman of West Makherpara village under Gowainghat upazila.

Tamabil Highway Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sanjoy Chakraborty confirmed the accidents.

He said the bodies were kept at the hospital morgue and would be handed over to their respective families following autopsies.