A Chittagong court on Thursday sentenced truck driver Mafizur Rahman to serve five-year jail term with fines and in default nine more months’ imprisonment finding him responsible on several counts of reckless driving causing an accident at Mirsarai on July 11 which killed 45 persons including 43 school students. The fatal accident at Mayani in ... Read more
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Mirsarai tragedy trucker caught
Police yesterday arrested the unlicensed driver, responsible for the July 11 truck plunge that killed 40 people, mostly school children, in Mirsarai of Chittagong. A team from Kawnia Police Station of Barisal arrested the truck driver, Jasimuddin alias Mofiz, from a house in Batna village of the district around
Farmer drove truck
The man, who was driving the truck that turned turtle into a ditch in Mirsarai killing so many children Monday, was a farmer most of his life and he did not even have a driving licence. Mofiz, in his late 40’s, was a helper to the driver of the vehicle owned by Haji Rice Mill. ... Read more