Natore Correspondent:

A father and his daughter have died in a road accident at Natore’s Lalpur on their trip to their hometown in Bogura for the Eid holidays.

The man’s wife and the driver of the private car carrying them were injured in the accident that occurred at Godhora Bazar area on Bonpara-Pabna Highway around 10am on Thursday, said Md Ismail Hossain, chief of Bonpara Highway Police Station.

The dead were identified as Md Shahriar Alam, son of Md Abul Kashem from Koipara in Bogura’s Shajahanpur Upazila, and Shahriar’s two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Sumaiya Akter.

The injured are Ayesha Akter Rumi and the private car driver, who has yet to be identified. They were under care at the Bonpara Patwari Hospital.

OC Ismail Hossain said that a Bogura-bound private car coming out of Jashore veered out of control and collided with a roadside tree. The car was severely damaged.

Locals dragged them from the wreckage and rushed them to the Bonpara Patwari Hospital, but the father and daughter died on the way.

The private car was supposed to run on the Pabna lane but the accident occurred on Bonpara lane, the police officer said.

He predicted that the driver lost control of the car, which veered from one side of the highway to the other, eventually crashing into a tree. No other vehicle, however, collided with the car in the meantime.

Police assumed that the driver had fallen asleep and lost control of the car, leading to the accident.

The bodies had been kept at the Bonpara Highway Police Station, OC Ismail said. The family of the victims were informed of the incident, he said, adding they could file a case if wanted.