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Tangail lawmaker Ekabbar Hossain passes away
Ekabbar Hossain, member of parliament from Tangail-7 constituency, passed away at a hospital in city on Tuesday. He was 76.
Ekabbar, also the president of Mirzapur upazila unit Awami League, breathed his last around 2 pm while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka, said his son Barrister Tahrim Hossain Simanto.
He left behind his wife, one son, two daughters and a host of relatives to mourn his death.
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Ekabbar, also a valiant freedom fighter, returned from the constituency winning the four successive general elections in 2001, 2008, 2014 and 2018.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed deep shock at the demise of the Ekabbar Hossain.
She prayed for the eternal salvation of the departed soul and expressed sympathy to the bereaved family.
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Tangail road crash kills three
Three people were killed and one was injured in a collision involving three vehicles on the Dhaka-Bangabandhu Bridge highway at Kalihati in Tangail on Friday morning.
Witnesses said the accident occurred when a Dhaka-bound covered-van collided head-on with a truck and then a Jamalpur-bound bus crashed into them on the highway around 10:30 am, leaving one dead on spot and three others injured.
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Later, the three injured were taken to Tangail General Hospital in a critical condition where two others succumbed to their injuries.
SI Nazmul Islam of Bangabandhu Bridge East Police said the injured was undergoing treatment in the hospital.
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Five, including three women, killed in Tangail road accident
Five people, including a cancer patient, her daughter and sister, were killed in a head-on collision between an ambulance ferrying them to a hospital and a speeding truck in Kalihati upazila of Tangail on Saturday.
Five others injured from the accident are currently being treated at the Tangail General Hospital.
Local police couldn’t immediately identify all of the three deceased women.
But a relative of the family in Chattogram confirmed that the three women were Mabia,15, her mother Farida Begum, 30, and her aunt Ferdousi Begum, 34 all hailing from Chattogram’s Freeport area under EPZ police station.
Saifur Rahman, a close relative of the three confirmed their identities to UNB’s Chattogram correspondent.
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“They left for Sirajganj Cancer Hospital by an ambulance from Chattogram around 12 am for cancer patient Farida Begum’s scheduled chemotherapy session”, he said.
However, all the victims boarded the northern district-bound ambulance supposedly in the absence of any public transport due to the Covid-induced stricter lockdown, said Bangabandhu-Bridge East police station’s Sub-Inspector Nazmul earlier to UNB’s Tangail correspondent.
The accident occurred around 7.30am when the fish laden truck crashed into the ambulance that was coming from the opposite direction on the east side of Bangabandhu bridge in the Hatia area, police said.
The impact of the collision was such that three occupants of the ambulance including the driver died on the spot. The seven other injured occupants were rushed to Tangail General Hospital, where two of them were declared dead on arrival.
A probe has been ordered into the accident, a police official said.
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Road accidents in Bangladesh
Road accidents are common in Bangladesh and have been a major cause of deaths.
During the last Eid-ul-Fitr holiday rush, road accidents claimed 323 lives in just 15 days, said Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Shamiti, a human rights body.
Besides, 513 people, including 63 children, were killed and 598 injured in 409 road accidents across the country in March, said the Road Safety Foundation on April 5.
According to the NGO, 147 lives were lost in 138 motorcycle accidents, which is 28.65% of the total deaths.
In a report released in February 2020, the World Bank pointed out that Bangladesh needs to invest an estimated $7.8 billion over the next decade to halve its road crash fatalities.
The report attributed the high death rate on Bangladesh’s roads to lack of investments in systemic, targeted, and sustained road safety programmes.
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