A Correspondent:
Feni: Two people including an eight-month-old boy were killed and four members of a family were injured in a road accident in Fulgazi upazila of Feni on Saturday.
The deceased were identified as autorickshaw driver Saiful Islam, 22, of Haripuskarni village under the Fulgazi upazila of the district and eight-month-old Anas, son of Akram Hossain of Chiora vil-lage in Chauddagram upazila of Cumilla.
The injured were the baby’s father Akram Hossain, mother Jannatul Munni, brother Hashim Bin Akram and maternal grandfather Jamal Uddin.
Akram along with his family went to the house of his father-in-law to Pubro Basantopur village in the Fulgazi upazila from Cumilla’s Chauddogram upazila a few days back.
They were returning to Cumilla from the Basantopur village by a CNG-run autorickshaw in the morning.
Police and locals said the accident happened in the morning when a speeding pickup van ran over the autorickshaw carrying the five members of the family on Amzadhat-Munshirhat road in Sha-nirhat Monipur area, leaving all critically injured.
The autorickshaw driver and the baby were rushed to Feni Sadar Hospital where physicians de-clared them dead upon arrival, they said, adding that the rest were sent to Chattogram Medical College Hospital where they are undergoing treatment.
Fulgazi Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abul Hasim said the pickup van driver Shahin was arrested in this connection and both vehicles were also seized.
Legal actions will be taken in this regard, he added.
