Three people including two leading businessmen were killed and three others injured yesterday in a road accident on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Nankara in Comilla.
The deceased are Standard Bank Director Harun Salam, also a relative of Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina, former Director of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CCCI) Shahedul Alam Quaderi and driver Zahir.
Of the injured, engineer Munwar Ahmed, former director of CCCI and brother-in law of detained former BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, has gone into a coma.
Sources said the businessmen on board a Pajero jeep left Chittagong for Chandpur at about 7:30am to provide relief aid of Tk 2.5 lakh to the flood affected people in Chandpur under a relief distribution programme organised in association with Anjuman Mufidul Islam.
The accident occurred at about 10:00am when the jeep collided head-on with a covered van on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Nankara under Chouddagram upazila in Comilla killing the two businessmen and the driver on the spot and injuring three others.
The wounded are former CCCI director Munwar Ahmed, businessmen Md Asgar Khan and Md Salim Naser.
They were first admitted to the Comilla District Hospital and later shifted to the capital’s Apollo Hospital.
The police seized the covered van and the damaged Pajero jeep.
They handed over the bodies of victims to their relatives and gave the relief money to the regional director of Anjuman Mufidul Islam.
The namaz-e-janaza of the victims will be held at 10:00am today at the Jamiatul Falah Mosque in city’s Dampara area.
Meanwhile, the CCCI in a press statement yesterday expressed shock at the tragic death of its former Director Shahedul Alam and Standard Bank Director Harun Salam.
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