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Four activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were dead after a microbus carrying them plunged into a roadside ditch on Sylhet-Tamabil Road under Jaintapur upazila late last night, said police.
The deceased were identified as Jubayer Ahsan, 24, son of Jahurul Miah; Nihal Pal, 25, son of Ranadip Pal; Tamal, 24, son of Arju Miah; and Sumon Ahmed, 25, son of Harun Miah, hailing from Nijpat union of the upazila.
Though they did not hold any post, they were actively involved with Chhatra League.
Of the victims, Tamal was running for the post of general secretary of the upazila unit of BCL.
District unit BCL General Secretary Rahel Siraj confirmed their involvement with BCL.
Wali Ullah Badrul, organizing secretary of Sylhet metropolitan unit of AL’s voluntary organization Swechasebak League, said the BCL activists were going to Jaflong from Nijpat by the microbus around 11:30 pm.
The microbus fell into the roadside ditch when the driver lost control of the vehicle near a bridge on the way to Jaflong, he said.
Later, locals rescued them and sent them to Upazila Health Complex where two of the four young men were declared dead, Wali Ullah said, adding that the rest succumbed to their injuries on way to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.
Confirming the matter, Jaintapur police station’s Officer-in-Charge Md Tajul Islam said the bodies were kept at Osmani Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Hearing the shocking news, Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Md Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, district and metropolitan units of BCL presidents Nazmul Islam and Kishowar Jahan Sourav, general secretaries of the units Rahel Siraj and Nayeem Ahmad and hundreds of leaders and activists rushed to the hospital.
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