Two devotees died on Thursday night while coming to join at the 53rd Biswa Ijtema held on the bank of Turag River in Tongi, Gazipur.
The deceased were identified as Quazi Azizul Haq, 65, and Abdul Mamun Mona, 33.
"One devotee died of respiratory complications while another was killed in a road accident," officer-in-Charge (OC) of Tongi Model Police Station Mohammad Feroz Talukder on Friday.
Quazi Azizul Haq, hailing from Harishpur village of Shalikha upazila in Magura district, felt sick due to stomach pain at 11 pm on Thursday night and then he was sent to Tongi Government Hospital immediately. He died of respiratory problems at around 11.30 pm.
His namaj-e-janaza was held on the Ijtema ground after the fazr prayer on Friday and then his body was sent to his village home.
BSS says Abdul Mamun Mona, who lived in the city's Agargaon area, was killed in a road accident at station road area of Tongi on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at 10.30 pm on Thursday night when he was on the way to Ijtema, said Feroz Talukder.
