2 auto-rickshaw drivers killed in Postogola truck crash

Two auto-rickshaw drivers were killed and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was injured after a truck ran over them in the Postogola area of the capital today (5 November).

The accident occurred around 3am.

The deceased were identified as Zakir Hossain, 55, from Rasulpur in Habiganj’s Azmiri upazila, and Jahangir Poddar, 50, son of Shah Alam Poddar from Patuakhali Sadar upazila.

The injured CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver, Subhash Chandra, 36, is from Matlab upazila in Chandpur.

Zakir’s son, Md Mahin Hossain, said their family lives in the Rayerbagh Bazar area. His father was an auto-rickshaw driver.

“At around 3am, my father was sitting at a roadside tea stall under the Postogola Bridge, having tea. Several other people were also there when a large truck ran over them. It also demolished four to five roadside tea stalls,” he said.

Jahangir’s wife, Hawa Begum, said she received news of the accident early in the morning and later found her husband dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

“My husband was a rickshaw driver. I heard about the accident early this morning. When I arrived at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, I found him dead. I was told he had died after being hit by a truck in Postogola. We currently live in Kadamtali,” she said.

Following the accident, Fire Service personnel and local residents rescued the victims and took them to the emergency department of DMCH, where doctors declared two of them dead.

Quoting doctors, Md Habibur Rahman, inspector and in-charge of the DMCH police camp, said the bodies had been kept at the hospital morgue for autopsies.

Kadamtali police are investigating the incident.