Two friends were killed after being crushed by a bus on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla’s Daudkandi upazila on Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as Arif Uddin, 18, a first-year student at Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain College in Daudkandi, and his friend Saikat Sarkar, 18, a Bangladeshi expatriate from Italy.
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Arif was the son of Md. Salah Uddin, a former councillor of Ward No. 6 in Daudkandi municipality.
The accident occurred on the Gumti-Meghna Bridge in Daudkandi on Wednesday afternoon.
According to police, the two friends were riding a motorcycle when they were struck by a Dhaka-bound bus on the Gumti-Meghna Bridge. Both were crushed by the vehicle and died on the spot.
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Abu Obaid, officer-in-charge (OC) of Daudkandi Highway Police, said the bodies were recovered and taken to the police station.
The bodies were later handed over to the relatives of the deceased after the completion of due procedures, he added.