A woman from Satkania in Chattogram has died after spending more than three weeks on life support, nearly a month after a road collision on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway claimed the lives of her husband and toddler daughter.
Reshmi Akter passed away at approximately 3:30 am on Saturday, 14 November, while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Chattogram city. Medical staff had kept her in the intensive care unit (ICU) on life support for 24 consecutive days following the devastating crash, though her condition remained critical throughout her hospitalisation.
The tragedy began on the night of 23 October. Reshmi was travelling in a compressed natural gas (CNG)-run auto-rickshaw alongside her 31-year-old husband, Md Delowar, their 18-month-old daughter, Wasifa Jannat, and several relatives. The family was heading towards a local fair in the Keranihat area of Satkania upazila when their three-wheeler collided head-on with a speeding minibus near the Zafar Ahmed Chowdhury Degree College area.
Delowar died instantly at the scene from the impact of the collision. Emergency responders and locals rushed the critically injured toddler and her mother to a nearby medical facility, where doctors pronounced young Wasifa dead shortly after arrival. Reshmi survived the initial crash with severe injuries and was subsequently transferred to Chattogram for advanced critical care.
Nurul Absar, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Dohazari Highway Police Station, confirmed Reshmi’s passing on Saturday morning. He stated that she succumbed to her injuries while receiving intensive medical treatment and noted that authorities were making arrangements to hand over the body to her family for burial without a post-mortem examination.
The Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway remains one of the busiest and most accident-prone transport corridors in southern Bangladesh. Narrow carriageways, heavy traffic congestion, and frequent head-on collisions between smaller passenger vehicles and larger buses continue to pose severe safety risks to commuters across the Satkania and Dohazari stretches, regularly resulting in devastating losses for local families.
