Nat’l pry education academy DG killed in Ctg road accident

The director general of National Academy for Primary Education (NAPE) was killed and four others were injured in a collision between a truck and a microbus in Fatikchhari upazila of Chittagong this morning.
The microbus carrying five including the DG, Fazlur Rahman, 55, collided head-on with a rod-laden truck in Baroiarhat area around 7:00am, Md Abu Yusif Mia, officer-in-charge (OC) of Fatikchhari Police Station, told The Daily Star.
Doctors at Chittagong Medical College Hospital pronounced Fazlur Rahman dead after he was rushed there, the OC added.
Details on the injured victims were not available till 11.25am when the report was filed.
The victims were travelling to Khagrachhari to attend a programme, the police official said.
Fazlur Rahman was a member of BCS (Admin) Cadre, batch 1982 (Special). He was a joint secretary to the Government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh. On January 19, 2015, he joined the post of the director general of NAPE.
Before joining here he served in different capacities like upazilla magistrate, thana nirbahi officer, additional deputy commissioner (education and development), marine safety officer and special magistrate, deputy secretary and DIG prison and joint secretary.
He was born in a renowned Muslim family of Kalibari Road in Mymensingh.
He made official tours and visited many countries like South Korea, Thailand, China, Japan, and India.