The Bailey Bridge on the Atrai Bridge has been broken in Kankra area of Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur. Today, on 7 o'clock in the morning, a truck loaded with 700 sacks of fertilizer. As soon as the middle broke, the truck broke down and the truck fell down.
Due to the breaking of the Bailey Bridge, Parbatipur's direct contact with Dinajpur was cut off due to Chirirband. Thousands of people have been killed in extreme suffering.
Eyewitness Gulap Roy said, "I was in Balur Charar beside the bridge. Suddenly I heard a loud sound and saw the bridge in broken condition. A truck was loaded in a broken part of the bridge. Local people rescued the truck driver and his assistant.
Truck driver Assistant Badsha Mia said that accident took place when the truck carrying 700 sacks of fertilizer from Natwara to Parbatipur was going to Karrenhat of Chirirbandar upazila.
Beltoli Girls School Headmaster Morshed Ul Alam said in the first light that people of Parbatipur and Chirirbanda will have to travel about 40 kilometers to the city of Dinajpur by breaking the bridge. For this reason, the common people will suffer severe distress.
Dinajpur Road and Public Transport Executive Engineer Mohammad Masum Sarwar said that due to the Bailey bridge being risky, the warning message sign was placed on both sides of the bridge to prevent traffic from carrying more than five tons of goods. District coordination meeting and representatives of the public including the authorities have been asked more than once to help in this matter. Specifically, the traffic department was asked to look into this issue. But the traffic department did not look into the matter, the accident happened. He said, it will take 15 days to fix the bridge. Manpower has been sent to bring bridges from Lalmonirhat.