Four killed in road accidents
Our Correspondents . Gazipur and Comilla
AT LEAST four persons were killed in separate road accidents in Gazipur, Comilla and Sirajganj on Saturday and Friday night.
In Gazipur, Arafat Hossain, 11, a Class III student of Rajendrapur Cantonment Board School and College, was crushed under the wheels of a Dhaka-bound bus when he was crossing the Dhaka–Kapasia Road in the Rajendrapur RP Gate area at about 11:00am.
He was taken to Gazipur General Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
In another accident, a rickshaw puller was killed on the Rajendrapur Chowrasta area.
The rickshaw puller, Shahidul, died on the spot
and two others were injured after a collision between a truck and the rickshaw at about 11:30am.
The police recovered both of the bodies and sent those to the Gazipur General Hospital morgue for post-mortem examinations.
Separate cases were filed with the Joydevpur police station.
In Comilla, a man was killed when a motorcycle hit him on the Dhaka–Chittagong Highway in the Chauddagram area under Chauddagram upazila on Friday night.
The deceased was Md Serajuddin, 60, of village Kandirpar of the upazila. Local people said the motorcycle hit him when he was going to mosque for Isha prayers at about 7:30pm.
He was taken to Comilla Medical College Hospital where he died at about 9:30pm.
In Sirajganj, according to a UNB report, a boy was killed and 25 people were injured in separate road accidents Saturday morning.
A bus ran over a boy, Injamul, 13, son of late Dulal, at Ramgati Moholla in the municipality area at about 10:30am.
In another accident, 25 people were injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Chala under Ullapara upazila at about 10:00am.
Thirteen of the injured were admitted to Ullapara Upazila Health Complex and Sirajganj General Hospital. Of them, condition of four was stated to be critical.
Separate cases were filed with the respective police stations.
Fishermen abstained from catching
fry to get food aid
United News of Bangladesh . Pirojpur
THE government has taken up a project in cooperation with Saudi Government for providing food assistance to the unemployed fishermen abstained from catching hilsa fry, known as ‘jhatka’ following the government ban.
Government imposes ban every year on netting ‘jhatka’ for three months (from March to May) in 64 upazilas of 11 districts to boost hilsa production.
Relief and Rehabilitation Department officials said the rice would be distributed among 1,45,335 fishermen families during this period. Each family will get 10 kg rice per month.
The rice will be distributed in four upazilas of Chandpur, seven upazilas each of Bhola, Patuakhali and Pirojpur, three upazilas of Lakshmipur, 10 upazilas of Barisal, five upazilas each of Chittagong and Barguna, six upazilas each of Shariatpur and Munshiganj, four upazilas of Jhalakati.
The rice distribution has already been started among the fishermen, the officials said.
Local fishermen said the allocation of 10kg rice for each family for a month is quite insufficient for their livelihood.
Man robbed of Tk 3.65 lakh
Our Correspondent . Cox’s Bazar
ARMS muggers snatched Tk.3.65 lakh from a young man at Eadgong Bazar, a business centre, in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday
Anis Ahmed, a student of Cox’s Bazar Government University Collage and inhabitant of village East Pookkhali under sadar upazila, was returning home with the money in a bag at about 3:30pm when the criminals, allegedly led by Kalim Ullha, ex-chairman of Islampour union council, robbed the money at gunpoint, eyewitnesses said.
Later, a police team raided village Pahasihakhali to arrest the criminals but failed to trace them.
A case was registered with the sadar police station.
Patuakhali Juba Dal
leader held
Our Correspondent . Patuakhali
THE police in Patuakhali Friday evening arrested municipal commissioner Md Mostafizur Rahman alias Rumi, 42, also the municipal unit Juba Dal president, at the launch terminal in Patuakhali.
The Patuakhali sadar police officer-in-charge, Md Sheikh Delwar Hossain, said Mostafizur Rahman was wanted by the police.
Mostafizur went to the launch terminal along with his associates and beat Md Mamun, 35, a supervisor of Sundarban-5, a double-decker launch, the police said.
Mostafizur claimed that Mamun had misbehaved with him. Mostafizur also beat other members on the launch staff at the time, the officer-in-charge said.
At the news, Delwar sent a police tem to the terminal and the team arrested Mostafizur.
Delwas said there were several general diaries filed against Mostafizur during 2001–2007, but investigations could not be carried out on political grounds.
Sub-inspector Abul Hossain lodged a case against Mostafizur, who was produced in the chief judicial magistrate’s court in Patuakhali on Saturday. The court sent him to jail.
Physician held with Phensidyl
in Comilla
Our Correspondent . Comilla
THE police arrested a physician in possession of Phensidyl syrup (codeine) in Comilla on Friday night.
The arrested was AHM Zahidul Islam, 38, medical officer of Cordda Sub Health Centre in Gazipur.
The police said a police team had arrested Zahidul Islam when he was moving suspiciously in the Badshamiar Bazar area in Comilla town at about 9:00pm. They also recovered six bottles of Indian Phensidyl from his possession.
A case was filed with the sadar police station under the narcotics control act.
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