Road accidents claim eight lives
Eight people were killed and six others injured in road accidents in three districts on Tuesday.
In Thakurgaon, four people were killed when a truck collided head-on with with a diesel-run three-wheeler around 8:00pm on Tuesday in Kadashuka area on Thakurgaon-Baliadangi road.
The victims are Sadequl Islam, 30, Banu Begum, 45, Shahidul Islam, 45, and Yakub Ali, 55.
Sadequl, Banu, and Shahidul were residents of Baliadangi upazila, while Yakul hailed from Naogaon's Dhamoirhat.
Banu and Yakub died on the spot. The two others were taken to Baliadangi Upazila Health Complex in a critical condition where doctors declared Sadequl dead, said Hasibul Haque Prodhan, officer-in-charge of Baliadangi Police Station.
All three were the three-wheeler passengers. Meanwhile, Shahidul, who was the three-wheeler driver, was moved to Rangpur Medical College Hospital. He died there later.
Banu's six-year-old son Rahimullah, who was also injured in the accident, was now undergoing treatment at Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital.
A case was filed with Baliadangi Police Station in this connection, the OC said.
Two people were killed and two others wounded when two trucks collided with each other in Sirajganj's Pachalia area on the Sirajganj-Dhaka highway on Tuesday morning.
The dead are Kawsar Ali, 28, and Sanwar Hossain, 20.
The accident took place around 9:30am when a Sirajganj-bound brick-laden truck hit a stone-laden truck from the rear. Kawsar and Sanwar died on the spot.
Law enforcers and fire fighters rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies, said Abdur Rashid, sub-inspector of Hatikumrul Highway Police Station.
In Tangail, a newlywed woman and her grandmother were killed in a road accident in Kalihati upazila on Tuesday.
The victim are Moriom Akter Munni, 18, and her grandmother Omichha Begum, 80, of Nonla Bagbari village in Tangail's Dhanbari. Moriam's husband Tofayel Ahmed Anik and two others were also injured in the accident.
Tofayel and Munni were married in the first week of June, and he along with his wife and her grandmother were going to his brother's house in Tangail town on a CNG-run auto-rickshaw.
The auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a Dhanbari-bound bus from Dhaka on Bangabandhu bridge at Elenga in the morning.
Kamal Hossain, in-charge of Elenga highway police outpost, said the injured, including the CNG driver, were admitted to Tangail General Hospital.
Police seized the bus, but its driver and helpers managed to flee.
Our correspondents from Thakurgoan, Pabna, and Tangail contributed to this report.
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