Students of the educational institutions across the country, participating in the national mourning programme on Wednesday, expressed their deep shock and sorrow at the death of 44 fellow-students in Mirsharai. Black flags were hoisted at schools and colleges across the country. The students and teachers wore black badges, attended special prayer sessions and observed
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Mourning at schools today
Condolences pour in; case filed against helper-turned-driver Educational institutions across the country will today mourn the loss of 44 lives in Monday’s road crash in Mirsarai of Chittagong. As condolence poured in from across the country, ministers and education officials yesterday rushed to Mirsarai to condole with the bereaved families. No words were soothing enough ... Read more
Tears in heaven
Rubber slippers float on water, reddish partly from oil leaked from the truck or from blood of 42 children and 2 others who perished when it plunged into the ditch. People still come and stand silent to give a vacant look at the site. Only ravaging anger and a sense of nothingness prevail
Survived but shell-shocked
His whole body except the left leg was free. The leg was stuck in the muddy ditch bed and the railing of the truck. Only a few inches under the water, Borhan felt it was miles to conquer. He tried to gather strength to give it a last try. Someone trapped under the truck pulled ... Read more
Gloom descends as bodies arrive home
A pall of gloom was hovering over the Abu Torab-Bartakia Road, strewn with bodies of the schoolboys killed as a pick-up truck carrying them plunged into a roadside ditch at Mirersarai near the port city on Monday afternoon. A shrouded body was lying beside the road after every two or three
Death tears twins apart
Mohammad Sakhawat, class-V student of Abu Torab Government Primary School in Chittagong, plumbs the depths of pain after a road accident yesterday separated him from his twin brother Mohammad Ferdous for life. Sakhawat played for his school in a football match yesterday while his brother Ferdous cheered
Schoolboys’ trip of death
43 students killed as truck plunges into ditch; driver said to be talking on mobile, flees; nation in mourning A truck packed with students crashed and flipped over into a ditch in Mirsarai upazila yesterday afternoon, killing at least 43 of them and injuring another 12. Forty-one of the dead were schoolchildren and two college ... Read more