{"id":44292,"date":"2026-02-19T22:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44292"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:40:01","slug":"mesut-ozils-convoy-meets-with-road-accident-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/mesut-ozils-convoy-meets-with-road-accident-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesut \u00d6zil\u2019s convoy meets with road accident in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"580\">Former German football star <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Mesut \u00d6zil<\/span><\/span> and <strong data-start=\"346\" data-end=\"437\">Necmettin Bilal Erdo\u011fan, son of Turkish President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, were involved in a minor road accident in Bangladesh on Thursday evening after their convoy collided with a motorised auto-rickshaw in Ukhia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"582\" data-end=\"802\">The incident took place around 7:00 pm on the busy Cox\u2019s Bazar\u2013Teknaf Road in the Kutupalong area, according to police officials. The convoy was travelling as part of a humanitarian visit to Rohingya camps in the region.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"849\">Escort Vehicle Collides With Auto-Rickshaw<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"851\" data-end=\"1130\">Saiful Islam, Officer-in-Charge of Shahpori Highway Police Station, confirmed that the accident occurred when the convoy reportedly broke VIP movement protocol. The vehicle involved in the collision was a police escort vehicle accompanying Mesut \u00d6zil and Necmettin Bilal Erdo\u011fan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1477\">While neither \u00d6zil nor Bilal Erdo\u011fan sustained injuries, the auto-rickshaw was badly damaged in the crash. Its driver suffered injuries and was provided medical treatment at a local healthcare facility. Authorities have seized the vehicles involved and launched an investigation into the incident. Legal action will follow based on the findings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1479\" data-end=\"1617\">An event coordinator clarified that the vehicle directly involved was part of the police escort, not a personal vehicle of the delegation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1619\" data-end=\"1838\">\u201cThe escort vehicle collided with a rickshaw and possibly a roadside structure. No one from the delegation was seriously injured. The driver received minor injuries and was taken to hospital,\u201d a source told local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former German football star Mesut \u00d6zil and Necmettin Bilal Erdo\u011fan, son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, were involved in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":44293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1085],"class_list":["post-44292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-mesut-ozil"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44295,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44292\/revisions\/44295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}