Expatriate Jewel Mia Killed as Bus Hits Auto-Rickshaw in Sherpur, Four Injured in Hospitals
An expatriate named Jewel Mia, 41, was killed when a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Sherpur Sadar upazila. Four other people were injured in the incident.
The accident happened at around 9pm on Tuesday, 27 October, at the Jora Pam area of Sherpur Sadar upazila on the Sherpur-Dhaka regional highway.
Jewel Mia was a resident of Barmaisa Khicha village in Nakla and the son of Md Hafiz Uddin of that village. He had been working as an expatriate in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
Police and local sources said a Sherpur Chamber of Commerce bus travelling from Dhaka to Sherpur hit the auto-rickshaw, causing the casualties. Jewel Mia died at the scene and the four injured were rescued and taken to different hospitals.
The injured are Nakla municipality accountant Mohammad Ferdousur Rahman, 50, accounts assistant Alamgir Hossain, 32, Shafiqul Islam, 45, and Dulal Mia, 60.
Ferdousur Rahman was sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital after first aid at Sherpur District Sadar Hospital. Alamgir Hossain is being treated at Nakla Upazila Health Complex, and Shafiqul Islam and Dulal Mia are admitted to Sherpur District Sadar Hospital.
Jewel Mia's cousin Ershad Ali said his brother had lived abroad for about 14 years, returned home 20 days ago, has a son and a daughter, and the son is currently abroad with him. He had come to Sherpur on Tuesday afternoon and met with the accident on his way home.
Nakla municipality executive officer Md Monirul Hasan said he had come to Sherpur in the afternoon with the accountant and accounts assistant to buy gifts for three officials who were to be farewelled the next day because of transfers. On hearing of the accident, he arranged an ambulance and sent the injured Ferdousur Rahman to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.
Sherpur Sadar police officer-in-charge Khokon Chandra Ghosh said the accident occurred at around 9pm in front of Momin Member's house in the Hawrakhan Bari area of the Sherpur-Dhaka highway, that police found one person dead at the scene, and that legal proceedings over the incident are under way.
