7 die in Ctg landslide, road crash
Staff Correspondent, Ctg
At least seven people, including children and women, were killed in separate incidents of landslide and road accident in the city's Bayezid Bostami and Doublemooring areas yesterday.Police said a huge chunk of earth fell on three children while they were playing at the hill-bed in East Shantinagar area under Bayezid Bostami thana at around 10:00am. The victims--Halima, 4, daughter of Md Ishaq, and Nargis, 5, and Bilkis, 3, daughters of Abul Bashar--died instantly. Another child named Rehena Begum was slightly injured. Police recovered the bodies at around 11.00am and sent those to Chittagong Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) morgue for autopsy. An unnatural death case was filed. In another incident, three women on a CNG-run autorickshaw and its driver died as a speeding truck hit the vehicle near Amin Centre Shopping Mall in Lal Khan Bazar area at around 7:30am. One of the passengers was identified as Shammi Akhter. A case was filed in this regard with the Doublemooring Police Station.
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