Roving Correspondent
Two women were killed and eight others injured in a road accident on Jhenidah-Jashore highway at Laudia in Jhenidah Sadar upazila on Saturday morning.
One of the deceased was identified as Poli Khatun, 35, wife of Alauddin Ahmed of Goriwala village in Jhenidah Sadar upazila.
Eyewitnesses and Jhenidah fire service and civil defense station (FSCD) sources said a passenger loaded three wheeler locally known as mahendra was marching towards Kaliganj from Jhenidah town. At about 10.00 Am when the three-wheeler arrived near Lauduia village, about five kilometers from the district headquarters, a truck dashed it from the back. A woman had died on the spot, while another at Jhenidah Sadar hospital.
Jhenidah fire service and civil defense station officer Dilip Kumar Sarker said both the mahendra and truck later fell in to a roadside pond leaving a woman dead. All the nine injured were rescued by the fire fighters and locals, were rushed to Jhenidah Sadar hospital. Another woman succumbs to her injuries there. Helper of the truck Sagar Hossain was allegedly driving the truck as against the driver.
Jhenidiah Sdar police station officer in charge main Uddin said the locals caught the helper Sagar Hossain and handed over him to local police immediately after the fatal accident. The body of the dead was sent to Jhenidah Sadar hospital morgue for post mortem examination, the police said.