ROAD ACCIDENT Willes Little Flower teacher’s hand severed, 10 students injured
The left hand of a teacher of Willes Little Flower School and College in Dhaka got severed and at least 10 students of the college sustained injuries as a bus carrying them hit a parked truck on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Ghonapara in Gopalganj on Tuesday.
The teacher, Syeda Fahima Begum, 48, was flown to Dhaka on an air-ambulance, said Monirul Islam, officer-in-charge of Gopalganj Sadar Police Station.
Officials at Gopalganj General Hospital said that they provided treatment to 10 other injured students at the hospital.
The police and fire service officials in Gopalganj said that a Tungipara-bound bus of Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation carrying the college section students, teachers and staff of Willes Little Flower School and College hit a parked truck from behind on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Ghonapara, leaving the teacher’s left hand severed from the elbow and at least 10 students injured at about 12:30pm.
They said that with the help of locals they rescued the injured people and took them to Gopalganj General Hospital for treatment
They said that the students and teachers were going to the mausoleum of country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Tungipara of Gopalganj on a study tour.
Gopalganj General Hospital assistant director Asit Kumar Mallick said that as the condition of the teacher was deteriorating, she was sent to Dhaka by an air ambulance.
Dhaka Medical College Hospital police outpost in-charge Bachchu Mia said that the air ambulance reached near the hospital at about 4:30pm and Fahima was admitted to Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute.
The institute coordinator Samanta Lal Sen told reporters in the evening that they were conducting surgery to join the severed part of Fahima’s hand.
He said that the condition of the teacher was critical.
According to officials at Willes Little Flower School and College, 105 students, 10 teachers and four staff were on the study tour under the management of Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
