BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman and his wife were injured when a battery-run three-wheeler hit their private car at Kaharol upazila in Dinajpur this afternoon.

Jinat Ara, younger sister of the BNP senior leader, told The Daily Star that Mahbub and his wife were on their way to Dhaka from Thakurgaon.

Their private car was hit by a battery-run three-wheeler from behind at Doshmile area on Rangpur-Dinajpur highway around 3:00pm, she told our correspondent.

Mahbub, the former army chief, suffered injury in his head while his wife on her forehead, Jinat Ara said.

Locals rushed them to Zia Heart Foundation in Dinajpur where they were undergoing treatment till filing of this report around 8:30pm.

Mahbub is being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), a local BNP leader said quoting a doctor of the hospital.

“He is now out of danger as the doctor said after examining the CT scan,” added the BNP leader.