A 21-year-old student succumbed to injuries on Friday, raising the death toll to 12 from the accident involving a running train hitting a microbus stuck on a level crossing in Mirsharai upazila in Chattogram, a hospital doctor said. The deceased was identified as Ayat Hossain, of Hathazari upazila, a passenger of the ill-fated microbus. Ayat died around 2:30 pm while undergoing treatment at Chittagong Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) for the last seven days, said CMCH Neurosurgery Department Head Prof Dr SM Noman Khaled Chowdhury. Dr Noman said Ayat was treated at the intensive care unit (ICU) as his oxygen saturation was very low. He suffered severe head and neck injuries in the accident. “His condition started to deteriorate this morning,” he added. Read:11 tourists killed, 6 injured after train hits microbus in Ctg On July 29, eleven people, all aged 20 to 30, died after a speeding express train hit the microbus carrying them at a level crossing in Mirsharai. Seven of them were SSC and HSC examinees, while three of them were young teachers from a coaching centre named ‘R&J Private Care’ and another was the microbus driver. They were returning home at Aminbazar area of Hathazari after a tour of the Khoiyachora Waterfall in the hills of Mirsharai, according to accounts of rescue workers. The Chattogram-bound Mahanagar Provati express from Dhaka ploughed through the microbus, dragging it around a kilometre down the railway track.

After fighting for his life for nearly a fortnight, another victim of the Cox's Bazar horrific road tragedy died at a hospital on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Raktim Shil, 33. Five of his brothers died two weeks back when a pick-up van ploughed into a group of nine siblings walking back home from a temple in Cox's Bazar last week. Read: 4 brothers killed in Cox’s Bazar road crash, 5 injured Raktim breathed his last at 10.30am in the intensive care unit of Chattogram Medical College and Hospital (CMCH). "He was shifted to this government facility five days ago from a private hospital where he was initially admitted. This was after his condition worsened," said Harunur Rashid, a doctor at CMCH. The other deceased were Anupam Shil, 47, Nirupam Shil, 45, Dipak Shil, 40 Champak Shil, 30, and Smaran Sushil, 32, sons of late Suresh Chandra Shil of Dulahazra union in Chakaria upazila. The fatal accident occurred around 5am on February 8 near Memorial Christian Hospital in the Malumghat area of Chakaria when the nine siblings were crossing a road, according to eye-witnesses.  Read: RAB detains driver of pick-up van that killed 5 brothers in Cox's Bazar The nine, all Hindus, had gone to a nearby temple to offer prayers for their father who was killed a day before. On February 11, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained the driver of the pick-up van from Dhaka's Mohammadpur area.