A college student and his nephew have been killed in a road accident after they crashed a motorcycle into a parked truck in Chandpur’s South Matlab. The college student was allegedly teaching his nephew to drive the vehicle.
The accident occurred on the approach road to the northern part of the Matlab Bridge on Tuesday afternoon, said Matlab South Police Station chief Md. Hafizur Rahman.
The dead were identified as Fazle Rabbi, 23, from Baispur in Matlab Municipality, and Ishaat, a native of Kalaiya village in Patuakhali district.
Rabbi's aunt, Maryam Begum, said that Rabbi was an undergraduate student of Matlab Government Degree College. His nephew, Ishaat, was a student in grade 10.
Ishaat's father is a driver working at the Secretariat. They live in Jatrabari, Dhaka. For Eid, Ishaat came to visit his maternal grandparents’ house in Matlab with his mother.