2 expat brothers killed in Cumilla road crash

Two expatriate Bangladeshi brothers living in Qatar were killed in a road crash while returning home from Dhaka on Tuesday, reports UNB.

The deceased are Salauddin, 70, and Abdul Maleque, 60, sons of Tofail Ahmed of Parshuram upazila in Feni.

The accident took place in Chhoyghoria-Kurchap area of Chandina upazila in Cumilla.

Monirul Islam, Eliotganj highway police camp in-charge (inspector), said the brothers were killed on the spot when a microbus carrying six passengers hit a covered van around 7am.

Four of their family members were injured. They are Saluddin's wife Nipu Akhter, 50, two sons Tahsin Ahmed, 24, Tahmid, 18, and daughter Fatima Maleque, 12.

They were taken to Chandina upazila hospital and later shifted to Apollo Hospital in Dhaka, Monirul added.