Renowned singer Khurshid Alam has been hospitalised after a truck hit the car carrying him in Bogura at the wee hours of Saturday (Mar 30), police said.
He has been taken to the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in the northern city and now being treated with non-life threatening injuries, Additional Superintendent of Police Sanatan Chakrabarty said.
The truck, which hit the car around 3am on the highway to Rangpur at Jhopgari area just outside the city, is yet to be traced, said the senior police officer.
The singer had gone to northern city to attend a reception at a city hotel, according to his brother Murshid Alam.
“Around 3am, the car carrying him and two other local residents was hit by a Dhaka-bound truck leaving all of them injured. Khurshid Alam was taken to the medical college hospital in Bogura,” he said.
The singer suffered injuries on the head, but is now out of danger, said the hospital's Neurosurgery Department chief Sushanta Kumar.
“He has not suffered a haemorrhage but left with damaged teeth due to the impact,” he told the media.
A seven-strong medical board has been formed for the veteran singer’s treatment, said the hospital’s Director Brig Gen Golam Rasul.
“He will undergo a CT scan, following which a decision will be made on transferring him to Dhaka,” he said.