Published : 01 Sep 2026, 06:10 PM
Updated : 08 Sep 2026, 09:37 AM
Two men have been killed in a head-on collision between a motorcycle and a pickup truck in Chattogram’s Lohagara.
The accident occurred in the Thakurdighi area on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway on Tuesday morning, police said.
The dead have been identified as Firoz Ahmed Touhid, 23, and Maji Patwary, 24. Both hailed from the Shaharpara area of Chandpur’s Kachua Upazila.
The two were on their way back to Chandpur from Cox’s Bazar when the accident occurred, according to friends travelling with the two.
Md Salauddin Chowdhury, chief of Highway Police at Dohazari Police Station, said the two men were headed from Cox’s Bazar towards Chattogram on their motorcycle. In the Thakurdighi area it crashed head-on into a Cox’s Bazar bound pickup carrying fish.
“Motorcycle driver Touhid was killed on the spot. Mahi was critically injured and sent to Chattogram Medical College Hospital,” he said.
Sub-Inspector Nurul Alam Ashek of the Chattogram Medical College Police Outpost said that Mahi was brought in around 8:45am and was declared dead by the doctor on duty.
Md Sohan, a friend of the dead, said that a group of 10 friends on five motorcycles had gone from Chandpur to Sajek and then to Cox’s Bazar on Sunday. Two of them were involved in the crash on their way back to Chandpur.
