Eleven people including four children were killed when a speeding truck hit a parked human hauler hurtling down both the vehicles into a roadside water body at Saitrish in Magura Sadar Upazila on Sunday afternoon.
The deceased, all passengers of the three-wheeled human hauler, were going to Magura town from Alamkhali, police said.
Angry local people put up barricade felling trees that suspended traffic movement on the highway for nearly four hours.
Later, police and district administration officials rushed in and assured the agitating mob of taking measures including building speed breakers to contain road accidents.
Magura police superintendent Proloy Chisim said people withdrew the barricade at about 7:00pm after they agreed to build speed breakers at different spots of the highway.
Among the deceased, five were identified as Pravir Kumar Ghosh, 45, a teacher of Rawtara HM High School, Suraiya Begum, 35, and her sister 12-year Sumaiya Akter, residents of Hajipur village of sadar Upazila, and 5-year old Madina Akter, 12-year old Mohammad Sohag, a resident of Lokqiol village.
Identifies of the others could not be known immediately.
Police said the accident occurred on Magura-Jhenidah highway at Saitrish bus stand at about 4:30pm when Dhaka bound vegetables laden truck hit the standing human hauler waiting to pick up passengers at the bus stand.
‘We are trying to retrieve both the vehicles from the water body. We have already recovered the bodies from the human hauler. So far I came to know that 11 people died in the accident,’ he said.
He said that the driver of the truck fled the scene after the accident.
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