31 July 2008
Ainul Huq
Road accident
A journalist was killed and two others were injured in a road accident at Jamil Nagar Charmatha of the town on Bogra- Dupchachia road.
The victim was identified as Ainul Huq, 30, a correspondent of Bogra-based the daily Muktabarta. The injured are Mahfuz Mandal, staff reporter of the daily Inqilab and Asaduzzaman Firoz, reporter of the daily Amar Desh. Asaduzzaman said he along with the two others was heading towards Dupchachia by a CNG-run three-wheeler from Bogra town.
As the vehicle reached Charmatha, the three-wheeler collided head-on with a bus, he said. Ainul was rushed to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries after one and half hours. Mahfuz was undergoing treatment at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College in the town. Police seized the two vehicles, but both the drivers managed to escape.