Dhaka, April 16 -- A storm damaged Rakibul Islam Milon Molla's house in Faridpur's Boalmari some days ago, so he decided to go to the deputy commissioner's office on Tuesday to bring tin sheets distributed as relief.

The 42-year-old took his wife Sumi Begum, 35, sons Ruhan Molla, 9, and Habib Sinan, 6, and Sumi's grandmother Marjina Begum, 70.

He thought he would send the tin sheets back home with them and he would travel to Dhaka, where he worked as a lift operator at the finance ministry. They took a pick-up truck along with some others after failing to get a bus.

All five are among 14 pick-up passengers killed after the vehicle crashed into a bus stranded in a pothole.

"I spoke to him last night. He said he would return to Dhaka af...