The early morning silence of the Bhanga–Khulna highway was shattered on Saturday when an ambulance carrying hope instead delivered heartbreak. 

Three members of a single family — bound for Dhaka in search of treatment — lost their lives in a brutal collision that turned a routine medical journey into a scene of irreversible loss.

Around 7:30 am, at Mansurabad in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur, a Khulna-bound truck rammed into the Dhaka-bound ambulance coming from Jashore. The impact was devastating. Inside the ambulance were patient Mizanur Rahman (40), his wife Rukaiya Akter Nila (32), and her younger brother Sakibur Rahman Nishan (27). None of them survived.

Mizanur had suffered a stroke just a few days earlier. Like countless families across Bangladesh, his loved ones were rushing him to Dhaka — a city that symbolises advanced care and last chances. That journey, filled with anxiety and fragile hope, ended abruptly on the highway.

Police said the three victims died on the spot. The ambulance, meant to shield life in moments of crisis, became a crushed metal coffin for a husband, a wife and a brother.

Two others were injured in the crash and were rushed to Bhanga Upazila Health Complex. Doctors later referred them to Faridpur Medical College and Hospital for advanced treatment.

Confirming the incident, Helal Uddin, Officer-in-Charge of Bhanga Highway Police, said the collision occurred when the truck hit the ambulance head-on.

By morning, news of the tragedy had spread to Jashore, where relatives struggled to comprehend how a medical emergency had turned into a fatal accident wiping out three lives from the same family. A home that had been preparing for recovery was instead plunged into mourning.

The incident once again casts a harsh light on the vulnerability of patients on highways and the fragile safety of emergency transport — where seconds matter, yet protection often falls short.

For one family, the road to treatment ended not in a hospital ward, but on the asphalt — with sirens silenced forever.