Mother, son killed in road crash

A woman and her son were killed as a bus ran over them in Gerakhola area on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Muksudpur upazila of Gopalganj on Saturday morning, reports UNB.

The deceased were Shawon, 30, and her son Sakib, 7, of Ramchandrapur area.

A Dhaka-bound bus of Saint Martin Paribahan hit Shawon and her son at 8:00am, leaving them dead on the spot near a bridge at Gerakhola, said Muksudpur police station officer in charge Mustafa Kamal Pasha. 

Ershad, the husband of the deceased woman, said the accident occurred when his wife was taking his son to a coaching centre.
Enraged by the accident, local people blocked the road that triggered a five kilometre traffic gridlock in the area.