Five women of same family killed in Chakaria while travelling to Cox's Bazar
The family was travelling from Dhaka’s Uttara to Cox’s Bazar for a holiday when their microbus collided with a bus in Chakaria.
Five women of the same family were killed and four others injured when a Cox's Bazar-bound microbus collided head-on with a passenger bus in Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar this morning (5 November).
The victims were travelling from their home in Uttara, Dhaka, to Cox's Bazar for a family trip when the accident occurred around 10:30am on the Cox's Bazar–Chattogram highway in the Haser Dighi area, police said.
The collision took place between a microbus heading towards Cox's Bazar and a Chattogram-bound bus of Marsha Paribahan, leaving five passengers dead and four, including the driver, injured, confirmed Mehedi Hasan, officer-in-charge of the Malumghat Highway Police Outpost.
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The deceased were identified as Rumi Begum, 65, Rizwana Majumder Shilpi, 55, Farzana Majumder Liza, 28, Sadia Patwari, 23, an MBA student at Cumilla University, and Farzana Majumder, 24, a student of economics at the University of Chittagong.
The injured are Uday Patwari, Samad Patwari, Shahed Majumder Lishan, and microbus driver Aminul Haque.
OC Mehedi Hasan further said that two people died on the spot, while three others succumbed to their injuries at Chakaria Upazila Health Complex. The remaining injured were later sent to Chittagong Medical College Hospital for better treatment.
According to police and family members, Uday Patwari, 43, a resident of Chandiskara village under Chauddagram municipality in Cumilla and an employee of Malaysia Airlines, had rented a microbus from Uttara on Tuesday night to take his family to Cox's Bazar for leisure.
Those on board included his wife Farzana Majumder Liza, son Samad Patwari, 4, sister-in-law Farhana Majumder Tiza, 25, and brother-in-law Shahed Majumder Lishan, 22. Along the way, they picked up his mother Rumi Begum, sister Sadia Akhter Patwari, and mother-in-law Rizwaana Majumder Shilpi from Cumilla.
"All of them started for Cox's Bazar on Tuesday night for a family trip arranged by my son-in-law," said Abdul Mannan Majumder, Uday's father-in-law. "We later heard the tragic news that five of them had died in the Chakaria accident."
"Both vehicles were badly damaged in the collision. The bodies have been sent to Chakaria Upazila Health Complex for autopsy," OC Mehedi Hasan said.
