Two Killed, Three Injured in Separate Road Accidents in Jaintapur.

Naeem Ahmed, Jaintapur-Gowainghat, Sylhet. Two people, including a madrasa student, were killed and three others injured in separate road accidents in Jaintapur of Sylhet on Monday (August 24). The accidents occurred in the Chiknagul and Tamabil areas along the Sylhet-Tamabil Highway. The first accident took place around 11:30 am in front of the main gate of Sylhet Gas Fields Limited in the Chiknagul area. According to eyewitnesses, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw carrying tourists from Dhaka to Jaflong was hit by a Sylhet-bound gate-lock bus coming from the opposite direction. The auto-rickshaw was badly damaged and its passengers were thrown onto the road. Madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Tasnim, 15, died on the spot. She was the daughter of Abdul Momin of Borokanda village in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj. Three others—Mohammad Ali, 30, Sumaiya Akter, 26, and Kulsum Begum, 55—were injured in the accident. They are residents of the Jatrabari and Kadamtali areas of Dhaka. In another accident, a motorcyclist named Hasan Mia, 35, was killed after being hit by a truck around 1:00 pm near the Tamabil Highway Police Station. Hasan was the son of Saiful of Hatipara village in Gowainghat upazila. Local sources said Hasan was travelling towards Jaflong on his motorcycle when it collided with a Sylhet-bound hydraulic truck coming from the opposite direction. He died on the spot. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Tamabil Highway Police Station Zakir Hossain said police reached the scenes after receiving the information and recovered the bodies. After preparing the inquest reports, the bodies were sent to the morgue of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital for autopsy. The vehicles involved in the accidents have been taken into police custody, and traffic movement on the highway is currently normal.