3 Bangladeshi students die in Canada road accident

Three Bangladeshi students died after two vehicles crashed head-on along Highway 7, about seven kilometres south of Arborg, in Canada on Thursday morning.

The deceased — Al Numan Aditta, Risul Badhon, Md Aranoor Azad Chowdhury — hailed from Dhaka and were students of University of Manitoba, said their friends in Manitoba and families in Dhaka.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police officials said a car southbound car crashed head-on with a car travelling the opposite direction. The driver and sole occupant of the northbound car — a 53-year-old woman from the RM of Armstrong — had serious but non-life-threatening injuries, reports Canadian television channel CTV News.

The RCMP said that the woman was taken to a Winnipeg hospital while all the three men died on the scene.

‘It is tragic, this loss of life at this scale on a little stretch of Highway 7,’ said Tara Seel, a media relations officer with the Manitoba RCMP.

Mohammad Alam, the Canada-Bangladesh Association of Manitoba general secretary, said the crash was reported at about 6:20am Thursday and the three were up in the area with other friends as they were all trying to see the northern lights.

He said they had finished their trip and started to make their way back to Winnipeg from a gas station.

Mohammad Alam is also a teacher at the International College of Manitoba, which is part of the University of Manitoba, and he said he taught the three.

‘I couldn’t believe it. It’s so shocking.’ He said the three were very bright and smart individuals.

He said that he were in communication with families overseas to determine next steps.

The RCMP said alcohol was not considered a factor. Seel said it appears both drivers were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash.

‘It’s really early days in terms of this level of investigation to come to any sort of conclusion,’ Seel said.

The Arborg RCMP and a Forensic Collision Reconstructionist are investigating the crash. The investigation is being aided by a Criminal Collision Investigation Team, though Seel said this is not because there is any criminal aspect of the investigation at this point.

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