Four killed in Gazipur road accident

Four people including the driver of a rickshaw van was killed as the vehicle was pressed in between two buses on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Telipara in Gazipur Saturday morning.

The deceased could not be identified immediately.

Local people and police said a Balaka Paribahan went out of order upon reaching Telipara area from Chandana Chourasta. A rickshaw van was behind the vehicle when the staff of the bus were repairing it.

At around 8:00am, a bus of Basumati Paribahan hit the stationed Balaka Paribahan bus from behind pressing the rickshaw van in between, leaving four people dead on the spot, they added.

Police recovered the bodies and sent those to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital morgue in Gazipur for autopsy.

Deputy inspector at Basan police station of Gazipur Metropolitan Police, Md. Matiuzzaman, said there were fishes on the rickshaw van. That’s why they assumed three of the deceased were fish vendors and the other person the driver of the rickshaw van.

Both the vehicles have been seized, he added.