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Case filed over killings of 4 including BAEC’s scientists

News Desk Police 2022-06-06, 3:04pm

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A case has been filed over the killings of four persons including three scientists of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) in a road accident on Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Savar on Sunday.



A case has been filed over the killings of four persons including three scientists of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) in a road accident on Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Savar on Sunday.
Several people including the unidentified driver of a bus of Safe Line Paribahan have been made accused in the case.
Atikur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Savar Highway Police Station, confirmed the filing of the case on Monday (June 6) morning.
The driver of a speedy bus of Safe Line Paribahan lost control of the vehicle and caused the accident near Baliarpur bus stand area at around 9 on Sunday (June 5). The bus first hit a bus parked by the road and then swerved into a cattle-laden truck. The bus then hit the road divider, broke it and hit the BAEC bus on the other side of the road, killing four persons including three scientists of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission and leaving 30 others injured.
The deceased were BAEC’s senior scientific officer Arifuzzaman, scientific officer Puja Sarkar, engineer Kausar Ahmmed and staff bus’ driver Rajib Hossain.
The injured were rushed to Enam Medical College Hospital in Savar after the crash.
Some of them were in critical condition and got admitted to ICU and NICU.