Former MP KM Hemayet Ullah Auranga who was killed along with four others in a road accident on Saturday was buried at the Intellectuals’ graveyard in Dhaka city on Sunday. Five people, including former MP KM Hemayet Ullah Auranga, were killed and two others injured as a jeep they were travelling in collided head-on with a bus in Louhajang upazila on Saturday afternoon. The Shariatpur-bound jeep collided head-on with the Dhaka-bound bus of ‘Gangchil Paribahan’ at Medinimondal on Dhaka-Mawa highway around 4pm as its driver lost control over the steering after one of the front tyres got deflated, officer-in-charge of Louhajang Police Station Zakiur Rahman told UNB from the spot.
Four people, including Auranga, were killed on the spot and three others injured. The injured were rushed to nearby Sholaghar Hospital where one of them died.
Three other deceased were identified as Jalal Munshi, Mohammad Yeasin and Ratan Talukder. All the victims were the passengers of the jeep which got twisted after the accident.
Police seized the bus but its driver managed to flee the scene. Vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Mawa highway remained suspended for one hour following the accident.
Later, traffic movement resumed around 5pm after a wrecker removed the badly damaged jeep from the highway. The tragedy struck the former MP from Shariatpur-1 constituency while he was going to his parliamentary area from the capital.
Auranga, 60, also a BNP executive committee member, was elected MP from the constituency twice -– first in 1991 on the Awami League ticket and in 2001 as an independent candidate.
In 2008 national election, he lost to Awami League candidate Abdur Razzak on the BNP ticket. – UNB
