The deceased were identified as Moinul Alam Sohag, 35, son of Md Khalilur Rahman of Vutiyargati village in Jhenaidah municipality area and a senior official of Grameenphone; and Farhana Islam Taniya, daughter of Md Amirul Islam of Dhaka’s Lalmatia area and an official of City Bank’s Jhenaidah branch.
Kazi Shojib, a cousin of deceased Sohag, said two private cars collided head-on in Shakespeare Sarani of the city at 1:50am on Saturday. At one stage, one of the two cars hit the duo who was waiting beside the road stuck amid heavy rainfall, leaving them critically injured.
Later, they were rescued and taken to The Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research and Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital (locally called as PG Hospital) where doctors pronounced the duo dead.
The Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh in Kolkata started the process of sending the corpses home, said family sources.