Munshiganj road crash kills two schoolboys

Two schoolboys were killed and four other people were injured in a road accident in Kayotkhali bus station area of Sreenagar upazila in Munshiganj yesterday evening.

Shuvo, 12, son of Sirajul Islam, and Sourav, 13, son of Md Jahangir, died on the way to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. They were cousins and belonged to Kayotkhali village.

The two, students of class-VII at Hashara Kali Kishore High School, along with their classmate Tarikul, 13, were returning home from their school when a private car hit them and then hit a roadside tree, said witnesses.

The private car veered out of control after a bus of Ilish Paribahan had hit it from behind, witnesses added.

The injured, including Tarikul, and the car driver and its passengers, were initially admitted to the upazila health complex. However, identities of the passengers could not be known immediately.

After the incident, agitated locals blocked the Dhaka-Mawa highway causing a half-an-hour long tailback.

Hearing the news, local lawmaker Sukumar Ranjan Ghosh rushed to the spot and pacified the people. Later, the angry mob withdrew the blockade. Police seized both the vehicles but could not arrest the drivers. Filing of a case was under process.