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Truck driver, helper sued for Cumilla accident

| Updated: January 26, 2019 19:25:07


A coal-laden truck overturns on the labour shed of a brick filed on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chouddagram upazila on Friday, leaving 13 people dead. Photo: UNB A coal-laden truck overturns on the labour shed of a brick filed on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chouddagram upazila on Friday, leaving 13 people dead. Photo: UNB

A case has been filed against the truck driver and his helper in connection with the death of 13 brick kiln workers who were killed when a coal-laden truck flipped on them in Chouddagram upazila in Cumilla on Friday.

Sanjib Roy, brother of victim Ranjit Chandra Roy, filed the case with Chouddagram police station on Friday night, said Abdullah Al Mahfuz, officer-in-charge of the police station.

The OC said that they are trying to arrest the driver and the helper, UNB reports.

Thirteen brick kiln workers were killed and four others injured when the coal-laden truck overturned on a labour shed at a brick field in Chouddagram upazila's Narayanpur in the early hours of Friday.

The driver and the helper absconded soon after the incident.

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