18, including child, injured in Dhaka road accident

At least 18 people, including a child and four women, were injured after a private car ploughed through crowd at Kurmitola in Dhaka on Sunday afternoon.

Four of them were in critical conditions, the police said.

Eleven of the injured were identified as Farid, Rajjak, Azim, Rajib, Rashed, Bakkar, Azizul Islam, Salma, Rahima, Maksuda and Nazma.

Kazi Sahan Haque, officer-in-charge of Cantonment police station, said that the victims were waiting for bus at the stoppage when the private car hit them.

‘Five of them were taken to Kurmitola General Hospital. Four of the critically injured, including the child, were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital,’ the OC said.

Another victim was taken to the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital.

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