“The five were killed instantly while three others including Tarek Masud’s wife Catharine Masud were sent to at Dhaka Medical College Hospital with critical wounds,” additional police superintendent of Manikganj Zakir Hossain Majumdar told BSS as he was reached here by phone. He said the accident occurred as a microbus carrying nine people including Masud, Mishuk Munier, who is also a former teacher of mass communication and journalism at Dhaka University and cinematographer, collided head on with a bus from opposite direction. “The accident took place at a point where the highway took a critical turn . . . apparently the bus was on high-speed despite heavy downpour as it hit the microbus that was coming to Dhaka,” Majumdar said. Police said Cathrine Masud, also a filmmaker, and the two other injured were sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for better medical care as referred by doctors at Manikganj Sadar Hospital where they were initially rushed to. The three other victims who died on the spot were driver of the microbus identified as Mustafiz and Nurul Islam, whose identify could not be known immediately. Manish Rafique, an associate of Masud who survived the crash receiving minor injuries, later told newsmen at Manikganj police station their team was returning from Manikganj visiting a shooting spot for their proposed feature film “Matir Phool” at Shaojana area at Shibalaya upazila. “We were nine in the team who were in the microbus . . . I miraculously escaped the death while they died,” Rafique said.
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