HABIGANJ, May 2: Five private car passengers were killed after a collision with a truck in Madhabpur upazila here early Thursday.
Of the deceased, four were the members of a same family. They met the tragic accident while returning home in Dhaka from Sylhet, it was learnt.
The deceased were Jamal Mridha, 42, and his brother Khokon Mridha, 35, Jamals wife Kamrun Nahar, 30 and son Kawsar, 12. The other dead was the car driver.
Badrul Karim, Officer-in-Charge of Shayestagnj Highway Police Station, said the victims were the residents of Barishal. They used to live at Savar in Dhaka and worked at a garment factory.
The accident took place when they were returning in the private car after visiting a shrine in Sylhet. When their car reached Madhabpur upazila, it collided head-on with the truck coming from the opposite direction, leaving five people dead on the spot, the OC said.
Rakibul Islam, CO of Madhabpur Police Station, the Dhaka-bound private car collided with a truck coming from the opposite direction at Haritola area of the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at about 1:30am.
And the car got twisted. Police, later, recovered five bodies from the car
