Road crash kills couple

Road Accident
Road Accident

A local journalist and his wife were killed while their two children injured after being run over by a speedy bus in Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj early Sunday.

The deceased were Rafiqul Islam Jinnah, 50, a correspondent of local newspaper, The Daily Satmatha, and his wife Morsheda Khatun, 45, an NGO official posted in Gazipur.

Panchanan Sarkar, officer-in-charge of Raiganj police station, said Jinnah went to Dhanghora bus stoppage to receive Morsheda and their children who returned from Gazipur.

The bus crashed into them around 2:00am while they were getting on a van, leaving the couple dead on the spot and their children -- one aged 7 and the other 4 – sustained injuries.

Law enforcers arrested the bus driver and his assistant, the OC said.