7 members of a family from Chakaria killed in road accident in Saudi Arabia
B M Habib Ullah, Chakaria-Pekua (Cox’s Bazar)
Seven individuals from Chakaria—including women and children have been killed in a road accident while traveling from Medina to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. All the victims were associated with the Saudi-based company, Al-Abeer Cold Stores Trading Company.
According to Nuruzzaman, the company’s marketing manager, the accident occurred around 2:00 AM (local time) on Friday (November 6) as they were returning to Jeddah from Medina.
The victims include the company’s storekeeper, Ziaur Rahman, along with his two sons and one daughter; the wife of a forklift operator named Elias; and Alamshah—a storekeeper working in Makkah—along with his one-month-old daughter. All the victims hailed from the Chakaria Upazila of Cox’s Bazar district.
Following the accident, the bodies of the deceased have been placed in the morgue of a government hospital in Medina. Further details regarding the exact cause of the accident and the timeline for repatriating the bodies to Bangladesh are not yet available.
