Road accidents kill 11 in 4 districts
At least 11 people were killed and eight others injured in separate road accidents in Sunamganj, Tangail, Chittagong and Barguna today.
Four people were killed and another was injured as a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Chhatak-Gobindoganj highway in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj this morning.
Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately, reports our Moulvibazar correspondent.
Ashek Suja Mamun, officer-in-charge of Chhatak police station, said the truck rammed the three-wheeler in Hasnabad area around 8:15am, killing the four passengers on the spot.
On information, police recovered the body and sent those to Sunamganj Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Meanwhile, in Tangail, two people were killed and two others injured in a collision between a bus and a human haulier on the Dhaka-Tangail highway around 8:15am.
The deceased were identified as Bulbul Miah, 35, of Bogra and Sudip Chandra Ghatak, 30, of Tangail, reports our Tangail correspondent.
The accident took place at the Tangail town bypass when the Rangpur bound bus from Dhaka collided head on with the human haulier from the opposite direction, leaving four passengers of the human haulier critically injured, said Kamruzzaman Raz, sub-inspector of nearby Elenga Highway Police Outpost.
The two injured succumbed to their injuries at the Tangail Medical College Hospital, he added.
In Chittagong, three people were killed and four others injured as a city bus, after losing control, hit a tempo and two rickshaws in the port city’s Dewanhat area around 9:00am, reports Bangla daily Prothom Alo.
The deceased were identified as Nayees, Joynal Abedin and Nizam, all passengers of the tempo and rickshaws, the report added.
Sub-Inspector Md Ashrafuzzaman of Double Mooring Police Station said the accident left the seven critically injured. Doctors declared Nayeem and Nizam dead after all of them were rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital. Joynal succumbed to his injuries later, he added.
Elsewhere in Barguna, two people were killed and another was injured following a head on collision between a rented motorcycle and a pickup in the district’s Chunakhali area around 8:30am, reports Prothom Alo.
The deceased were identified as Monir Hossain Shikder and Ujjol Lal Sheel, an honours final year student of Dhaka College. Injured Al Amin was sent to Patuakhali General Hospital.
All of them were on the motorcycle, the police said.
Sub-Inspector Rafikul Islam of Amtoli Police Station said the pickup was seized, but the driver and helper managed to flee away.
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