As many as 259 people have been killed in 237 road accidents during this year’s Eid journeys throughout Bangladesh, says a study.
Jatri Kalyan Samity (JSK), which compiled the data, said 960 suffered injuries in road crashes during the Eid-ul-Azha holidays, as per a bdnews24.com report.
“This year's toll was lower than in the same period last year,” said JSK Secretary General Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury at a media briefing in Dhaka on Friday.
Deaths in road crashes increased by 13.5 per cent and injuries by 11.67 per cent during this year’s Eid-ul-Azha travels from the same period a year earlier, according to the study.
Holidaymakers started going to town and village homes on Aug 16 as the Eid-ul-Azha was held on Aug 22. The return journeys started a day after the Eid, while most people returned to work by Aug 28.
Compared to this year’s Eid-ul-Fitr, the numbers of the dead and the injured came down 23.59 per cent and 24.11 per cent, according to the study.
The JSK report continued to blame the accidents on reckless driving, unfit vehicles and unskilled drivers.
