BSS-36 Three of a family die in Cumilla road accident

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Three of a family die in Cumilla road accident

CUMILLA, July 7, 2020 (BSS) -Three people of a family were killed and one was injured as a private car fell into a roadside ditch near Kazirkona in Cumilla’s Daudkandi today.

The victims were identified as Siraj Mia, 65, Jahanara Begum, 52, and their grandson Abu Bakar Siddique, 14, of Nalgora village in Faridganj upazila of Chandpur district.

According to Comilla Highway Police sources, the accident took place around 5am on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway leaving the three dead on the spot and the another seriously injured.

Sumon, 32, another passenger of the private car, was treated at a local hospital.

Daudkandi Highway Police OC Abdul Al Mamun told BSS that the bodies were recovered with the help of locals and sent to morgue of Cumilla sadar hospital.

Police seized the car. But the driver of the private car managed to flee the spot.

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