By Staff Correspondent, Dhaka –
Tasnia Islam Prema (18), who was seriously injured in a road accident in Lohagara, Chattogram, has died.
She succumbed to her wounds while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) around 12 noon on Friday.
With Tasnia’s death, no one from her family survived. Tasnia’s parents and two sisters died in the accident. The death toll in the road accident reached to 11 with Tasnia’s death.
In another development, Aradhya Biswas (8), who was seriously injured in the Lohagara accident, was brought to Dhaka from CMCH for better treatment.
Aradhya, who lost her parents in the tragic accident, was accompanied by her relatives in an ambulance from Chattogram. She was undergoing treatment in the pediatric ICU of the CMCH.
Her relative, Durjoy Kumar Mandal (18), who was also seriously wounded in the accident, is currently undergoing treatment at the orthopedic department of the hospital.
A bus-microbus collision occurred in the Chunati Jangalia area of Lohagara upazila on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway on Wednesday morning.
Ten people were killed in the accident that day. They were Tasnia’s father Rafiqul Islam (48), mother Lutfun Nahar (37), two sisters Anisha Akhter (14), Liana (8) and relative Tanifa Yasmin (16). In addition, Aradhya’s father Dilip Biswas and mother Sadhana Mondal were killed. The other three deceased were Yusuf Ali (57), Ashish Mondal (50) and Moktar Ahmed (52). Yusuf was reportedly the driver.
Three people were seriously injured in the accident. Among them, Tasnia died Friday, Durjoy is undergoing treatment at the CMCH and Aradhya was brought to Dhaka.
Hospital sources said that Tasnia had been unconscious since the accident. She was kept in the ICU of the CMCH with life support from the beginning.
“Tasnia was declared dead at 12 noon today. Her condition was critical from the beginning. Her condition deteriorated over time,” said Professor Md. Harunur Rashid, head of the ICU department of the CMCH.
Brigadier General Md. Taslim Uddin, director of the hospital said that injured Aradhya was sent to Square Hospital in Dhaka and Durjoy is undergoing treatment in CMCH.
Relatives said that during the Eid holidays, the Rafiqul-Lutfun couple, their three children, relatives and members of the family of Rafiqul’s colleague Dilip Biswas of Shailkupa upazila of Jhenaidah, were going to Cox’s Bazar.
According to witnesses, a passenger bus of Relax Paribahan from Cox’s Bazar to Chittagong came to a bend in the highway in Chunati Jangalia area. When the driver tried to make a ‘hard brake’, the front part of the bus collided with a microbus going to Cox’s Bazar from the opposite direction. Immediately, another Cox’s Bazar nound microbus hit the accident-affected microbus from behind. This resulted in the casualties. All the casualties were passengers of the first microbus.