The handover process of the bodies of the 15 people killed in a collision between a pickup van and a truck in Sylhet's Dakshin Surma has started without autopsies.
Under the supervision of Additional District Magistrate Imrul Hasan, the bodies were handed over to the families of the deceased from Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital morgue at 2pm on Wednesday.
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The district administration announced that it will give Tk20,000 to the deceased people's families and Tk10,000 to the injured.
Sylhet Metropolitan Police Additional Commissioner Masud Rana said: "The bodies are being handed over to the families of the victims without postmortems. All the victims were construction workers. They were going to do welding work in Osmaninagar early in the morning with machinery on a pickup.”
At least 15 people were killed and many others were injured after a truck rammed into a pickup van on the Sylhet-Dhaka highway in the Nazir Bazar area of Dakshin Surma upazila, Sylhet, on Wednesday
