Our Mymensingh Correspondent says, three people were killed in a road accident at Shambhuganj-China intersection at Sadar upazila in Mymensingh yesterday.

The accident occurred at about 1:50pm when a Mymensingh-bound bus Haluaghat hit a rickshaw from behind at the intersection leaving three people, including the rickshawpuller and two rickshaw passengers dead on the spot, police said.

The victims were identified as rickshawpuller Shawkat Ali,50, Lal Mia,27, and Abul Bashar, 20.

The bodies were sent to the Mymensingh Medical College Hospital for autopsy.

Local people seized the bus but the driver managed to escape.

Two passengers were killed and 20 injured when a bus dashed a roadside tree at Manikchar in Sadar upazila in Comilla yesterday, reports UNB.

Police said the accident took place on Comilla-Feni Road when tyre of a Comilla-bound bus from Feni deflated and hit a tree at about 1:30pm.

Jan-e Alam, 18, of Feni died on the spot while Rezaul Hasan Chhoton, 40, of Sadar upazila on the way to hospital.

The injured were admitted to different hospitals.

Meanwhile, a coach knocked a bus off Rajshahi-Dhaka highway into a roadside ditch at Kapasia in Rajshahi in the morning, killing a woman on the spot and injuring 15 others.

Police and hospital sources said the Rajshahi-bound bus, coming from Bagha upazila, crashed into a ditch after the coach bound for Dhaka rammed it at about 6:45am.

"After the collision, the coach sped away," says a spot account of the accident. Local people and police rushed in and rescued the victims and salvaged the bus.

Identity of the deceased, aged about 25, was not immediately known. The body was brought to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital morgue.

The injured, some of them in critical condition, were admitted to the RMCH.

As season's first dense fog blurred visibility in the morning, two buses collided near Aladipur bridge on Rajbari-Faridpur road, leaving 15 people wounded.

Police and injured people said a Faridpur-bound bus from Rajbari collided with another bus from opposite direction at about 7:00am.

The accident occurred as "nothing was visible due to dense mist at the time", said one witness account of the mishap.

Critically injured Humayun, 40, Liakat, 38, Shajahan, 45, Samir Mandal, 45, and Mirza Safiuddin, 60, were admitted to Rajbari Sadar Hospital.