A Correspondent:
Sherpur: An autorickshaw driver and his passenger were killed in a road accident in Nalitabari upazila of Sherpur early Saturday.
The accident occurred around 3am in the Sannyasibhita area on the Sherpur-Nalitabari road.
The deceased were identified as Kamrul Hossain, 40, an autorickshaw driver and son of Ekdil Hossain of Khariapara village under Baghber Union, and Shahidul Islam, 40, son of Abdus Sattar of Salehabad Krishnapatti village.
According to police and local residents, Shahidul arrived in Nalitabari from Dhaka around 2:30am and hired Kamrul’s autorickshaw to travel to his in-laws’ house in Sagaradi Krishnapatti under Pachgaon.
On the way, the autorickshaw met with an accident in front of the Baghber Union Parishad office in the Sannyasibhita area.
Locals found the mangled three-wheeler beside a pile of sand stacked along the roadside, with the bodies of the two victims lying nearby, and informed police.
Police recovered the bodies and the wrecked autorickshaw and took them to Nalitabari Police Station.
Police suspect the auto rickshaw may have crashed into the roadside sand pile in the darkness or was struck by an unidentified heavy vehicle. The exact cause of the accident is being investigated.
Nalitabari Police Station Second Officer Sub-Inspector Abdul Hannan said police are investigating how the crash occurred.
He said the bodies were handed over to their respective families on Saturday after inquest reports were prepared, following applications from the families seeking burial without post-mortem examinations.
