3 killed as PBI pickup ploughs through RMG workers

Three female garment workers were killed and nine people injured as a vehicle of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) ploughed through them at Chandul in Chouddagaram upazila of Cumilla on Monday afternoon, reports UNB.

The deceased are Kazal, Nasima and Tanjina, workers of Dragon Sweater Factory. Further details about them were not available immediately.

Officer-in-charge of Mainamati Highway police station Mahbubur Rahman said a group of workers of the garment factory was waiting by the road after the factory was closed.

The Dhaka-bound PBI pickup crashed into them around 5:50pm and then plunged into a roadside ditch, leaving seven of the workers injured.

Of them, the trio succumbed to their injuries on the way to hospital, the OC said.

The accident also left four policemen injured, he said.