On the night of October 22, 1997, a rover team from Meherpur left for Sylhet by bus to participate in the 7th National Rover Moot and 9th Asia Pacific at Lakkatura Tea Garden in Sylhet. The bus carrying the rovers met with an accident in the Dhamrai area of ​​Manikganj in the early hours of October 23, killing the five rovers mentioned in Meherpur on the spot.