C T Online Desk: One more student succumbed to his injuries on Friday, raising the death toll to 12 from the accident involving a running train hitting a microbus stuck on a level crossing in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram, doctor said.
The deceased is Ayat Hossain,21, of Hathazari upazila, a passenger of the microbus.
Ayat died at about 2:30pm while undergoing treatment at Chittagong Medical College Hospital for the last seven days, said CMCH Neurosurgery Department head professor M Noman Khaled Chowdhury.
Noman said that Ayat was treated at the intensive care unit as his oxygen saturation was very low. He suffered severe head and neck injuries in the accident.
‘His condition started to deteriorate this morning,’ he added.
On July 29, eleven people, all aged 20 to 30, died after a speeding express train hit the microbus carrying them at a level crossing in Mirsharai. Seven of them were SSC and HSC examinees, while three of them were young teachers from a coaching centre named ‘R&J Private Care’ and another was the microbus driver.
They were returning home at Aminbazar area under Hathazari after a tour from the Khoiyachora Waterfall in the hills of Mirsarai, according to accounts of rescue workers.
The Chattogram-bound Mahanagar Provati express from Dhaka ploughed through the microbus, dragging it around a kilometer down the railway track.
