Two Killed in Separate Road Crashes on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Cumilla's Chauddagram, Including BNP Leader Selim
Two people, including a BNP leader, have been killed in separate road accidents in Chauddagram upazila of Cumilla. The accidents took place at separate places in the upazila on Monday morning (26 October).
The dead were identified as G M Selim (45), a work assistant in the engineering department of Chauddagram Municipality and organising secretary of Batisa Union BNP, and Imran Hossain (37), son of Shahjahan Mia of Shibchar upazila in Madaripur.
On Monday morning, G M Selim was travelling to his workplace by motorcycle. He was seriously injured when an unidentified vehicle hit him on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Boshontopur in Batisa Union.
Local people took the injured Selim to Chauddagram Upazila Health Complex for initial treatment. He was then taken to the Neuroscience Hospital in Dhaka for advanced treatment, where he died at noon while undergoing treatment.
Earlier at dawn, pickup van driver Imran Hossain was hit by an unidentified vehicle while repairing a wheel at Falgunkara on the highway, and he died on the spot.
Monir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Miyabazar Highway Police Station, said the driver's body was recovered from the Falgunkara area of the highway early on Monday and brought to the outpost. He said vehicle movement remained normal.
