Shamim s wife Meem Akter, 24, was admitted to Kumudini Hospital with injuries.
Mozaffar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Gorai Highway Police Station, said the couple was returning to work in Brahmanbaria after celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr in Akkelpur village of Joypurhat.
The bodies were later handed to the victims families. Police seized both the vehicles and filed a case in this regard, the OC told The Daily Star.
In Gazipur, two bikers were killed when a pick-up van hit their motorcycle from behind on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Kaliakair area around 11:30am.
One of the deceased is Shafiqul Islam Khan, 32, a resident of Nagar Chhaoalee village in Tangail s Mirzapur upazila. The identity of the other victim could not be confirmed till last evening.
Mad Rush Back: Virus scare takes back seat again
Hundreds of people and a few vehicles disembarking from a ferry that brought them from Bangla Bazar terminal to Munshiganj’s Shimulia terminal yesterday afternoon. After spending Eid at their home districts, people are returning to the capital. A large portion of them are not wearing masks amid fears of another Covid-19 spike in the country. Photo:
Sajjad Hossain
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Star Report
Thousands of people are returning to Dhaka from their homes after the Eid holidays as government and private offices reopened yesterday.
Health experts have been expressing concerns that the people travelling cross-country en masse will cause a sharp spike in the number of new cases of Covid-19.
Long-distance buses plying Dhaka-Tangail highway defying govt order
Long-distance buses plying Dhaka-Tangail highway. Photo: Collected Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
Long-distance buses are plying Dhaka-Tangail highway, violating restriction imposed by the government to curb transmission of Covid-19.
While visiting the highway, our Tangail correspondent saw long-distance buses operating in Gharinda, Kandila, Rabna, Bikromhati, Rasulpur and Elenga areas.
Traffic police have fined a number of buses on the highway for violating the government instruction, Yasir Arafat, in-charge of Elenga Highway Police Outpost, told our correspondent.
The Dhaka-Tangail highway and Bangabandhu bridge, known as the gateway to northern districts, are witnessing heavy pressure of vehicles this morning as Eid holidaymakers are leaving Dhaka by buses, private cars, rental cars and microbuses.
Homegoers would stop at nothing
People crowd the pontoon and beyond as they try to get on one of the few ferries that were operated between Shimulia of Munshiganj and Khathalbari across the Padma. Unable to manage the surge of people heading home for Eid, the authorities had to run a few ferries yesterday. Photo: Star
People are heading home for Eid in droves.
Despite the pandemic, the subsequent restrictions on movement, officials made to stay at their work stations, and suspension of inter-district public transport, people in their thousands left for their village homes yesterday.
They left the cities on private and small vehicles, ignoring the prime minister s request to celebrate Eid at where they are to help check the spread of Covid-19.
3 of a family killed in Cumilla road crash
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Three members of a family were killed after a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chauddagram upazila of Cumilla this evening.
The deceased were identified as two-year-old Mehjabin, her mother Mary Begum (23) and Mehjabin s grandfather Md Hanif (55), reports our Cumilla correspondent.
Yeasin Prodhaniya, in-charge of Fire Service and Civil Defence in Chauddagram, said Mary died on the spot while her father and her daughter were declared dead after they were taken to Chauddagram Upazilla Health Complex.
Witnesses said the speeding truck hit the auto-rickshaw around 5pm when its driver stopped the three-wheeler beside the highway at Chiora for the passengers to disembark.