Four years have passed since the tragic road mishap that took away the lives of five people, including renowned film maker Tareque Masud and media personality Ashfaque Munier Mishuk, near Juka bus stand at Ghior. On the fourth death anniversary, their contributions and creations were recalled at a memorial programme at Juka yesterday. Different socio-cultural organisations formed a human chain and held a rally at the accident spot on the Dhaka-Aricha highway. They also placed wreaths at the memorial plaque. Marking the death anniversary, Baniajuri Ba-Ra-Tha Uttaran Sanga, a socio-cultural organisation, organised a painting competition for school and college students in their club premises. Speakers at the function said in the death of talents like Mishuk Munier and Tareque Masud the nation lost its two golden sons. Their untimely death had shocked the nation. The speakers said people dying in road accidents cannot be considered as normal deaths. Terming the deaths in road accidents as murders, they urged to stop such killing by establishing discipline in the road transport system of the country. The speakers said that most accidents occur on the highway for absence of road divider.
They urged the authorities to build the road divider immediately to reduce the road accidents. On August 13 in 2011, Tareque Masud and Mishuk Munier, along with their film production crew—Wasim and Jamal—and microbus driver Mostafizur Rahman were killed in a tragic road accident in Manikganj.
Tareque’s wife Catherine Masud, painter Dhali Al Mamun, his wife Dilara Zaman Jolly and film production staff Saidul Islam, who were in the microbus, sustained severe injuries.