<i>Trader cheats death, then dies</i>

25 December 2011, 18:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Tangail

Within minutes of cheating death twice, a vegetable vendor met his sad demise at Kalihati upazila in Tangail yesterday. The deceased Mohammad Ilias, 35, hailing from Ghatnagar village under Gomostapur upazila in Chapainawabganj district, was travelling atop a tomato-laden truck with two other vendors. As the truck entered the approach road of Bangabandhu Bridge at Dhalatengur area around 7:00am, a passenger bus slammed it from behind. Just as the vendors were recovering from the shock, the truck skidded and fell into a roadside ditch, said police. Ilias, reeling from the accident, received a call on his cellphone, only to inadvertently walk onto an adjacent rail track and right in the path of Dhaka-bound train, which ran him over, killing him on the spot.