2 Bangladeshi PhD students killed in US road accident

Two Bangladeshi students doing PhD at an American university were killed in a road accident in Wilkinson County area near Georgia on Monday. The deceased are- M Imtiaz Ikram and Pracheta Dutta Tumpa. They were doing PhD at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Both of them had worked as part-time trainers at the Aeronautical Engineering Department of Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) after graduating from the department securing first place in different academic sessions, according to an ISPR release on Wednesday. It said the accident took place around 8pm local time.