Three Friends Killed in Subarnachar as Motorcycle Skids on Sand and Hits Electric Pole
Three friends have been killed in Subarnachar, Noakhali, after their motorcycle skidded on sand spread across the road, lost control and hit an electric pole. The dead are Shahadat Hossain (19), Abdul Karim (17) and Md Shamim (20).
The accident happened on Thursday (12 November) afternoon in the Boro Bridge area of the Kanchanpur–Char Hasan Bhuiyarhat road in the upazila.
Shahadat Hossain was the son of Abu Taher of Adarsha Gram in the Beribadh area of Purba Charbata union. Abdul Karim was the son of Md Kamal of the Shiuli Ekram Bazar area of Haji Gram in the upazila; he was a class ten student at Purba Charbata School and College. The third victim, Md Shamim, was the son of Rafikul Islam of Charbata union.
Police and local people said Karim was travelling by motorcycle with his two friends from Kanchan Bazar towards Alexander in Ramgati upazila of Lakshmipur. While coming down from an under-construction bridge, the wheel skidded on sand spread over the road and the motorcycle lost control. The motorcycle was also travelling at high speed at the time, it was learned.
The motorcycle then hit an electric pole beside the road, leaving all three seriously injured. Local people rescued them and took them to the Subarnachar Upazila Health Complex.
The doctor on duty at the Subarnachar Upazila Health Complex declared two of them dead. The other, who was critically injured, was taken to the 250-bed Noakhali General Hospital, where he also died.
Charjabbar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Rafikul Hasan said the accident happened because the motorcycle was being ridden at excessive speed and went out of control. Further legal steps will be taken according to the decision of the victims' families, he said.
