Mother, daughter and one other killed as truck hits three-wheeler in Panchagarh's Boda, five more injured
Three passengers of a three-wheeler, including a mother and her daughter, were killed when a truck hit the vehicle in Boda upazila of Panchagarh. They died on Friday night while undergoing treatment at Rangpur Medical College Hospital and Thakurgaon General Hospital. The accident occurred at around 4:30pm at Kaikilla Dighi in Chandanbari union, on the Boda-Debiganj road.
The dead are Mahmuda Khanam (35), an accountant at the Panchagarh BSCIC industrial estate, her eight-year-old daughter Al Aqsa Sampriti, and Pramila Rani (30), a clinic worker from Khelaram in Pamuli union of Debiganj upazila.
Police and local people said the three-wheeler was carrying passengers from Sakoa Bazar area of Boda upazila towards the upazila town in the afternoon. At Kaikilla Dighi on the Boda-Debiganj road, a truck coming from the same direction hit the three-wheeler from behind. The vehicle was mangled and eight passengers were seriously injured.
After the accident, local people rescued the injured and took them to Boda Upazila Health Complex. When the condition of seven of them deteriorated, they were sent to Thakurgaon General Hospital.
In Thakurgaon, when the condition of Mahmuda Khanam and her daughter Al Aqsa Sampriti worsened further, they were sent to Rangpur Medical College Hospital. The mother and daughter died there at around 8pm while undergoing treatment. A short while later, another passenger, Pramila Rani, died while undergoing treatment at Thakurgaon General Hospital.
The remaining five injured passengers are undergoing treatment at Thakurgaon General Hospital.
Rezwanul Haque Mondal, inspector (investigation) of Boda police station, said the three three-wheeler passengers, including the mother and daughter, died while undergoing treatment after the truck hit the vehicle. The driver fled with the truck after the incident, but the truck was later identified. Legal action over the incident is under way.
