No end to bloodspill on Roads
6 die while returning from relief work for Rohingyas
3 others also killed in another Narsingdi accident
Nine people, including two teachers, were killed and 30 others injured in two road accidents in Narsinghdi yesterday.
Most of the deceased aged between twenty to fifty were the lone earning members of their family, police said.
In Madhabdi, six people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a micro-bus on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Kandail area around 7:00 am.
Elias Miah, officer-in-charge of Madhabdi Police Station, said four passengers of the microbus died instantly. Among the other two micro-bus passengers, one died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital while another at Narsingdi Sadar Hospital.
The microbus was heading towards Sylhet after distributing relief materials among Rohingyas at Cox's Bazar, police said.
The dead are Abdul Based, 35, Helal Mia, 26, Kawsar Habib, 33, Sadar Ali, 32, Babul Hossain, 32 and Rezaul Karim, 38.
In Shibpur, three people, including two teachers, were killed and three others injured when a bus hit a human haulier in Kararchar area around 9:00 am.
Narsingdi Sadar Hospital sources said the accident happened as the bus hit the human haulier (Leguna), leaving one dead on the spot and five others injured.
Two of the five injured died at the hospital.
The deceased are Arman Mia, 50, a schoolteacher of Kararchir Moulavi Tofazzal Hossain High School, Masum Billah, 45, a teacher of Dogoria Madrasha and an Imam of a local mosque, and Shujan, driver of the human haulier.
In the last six months since January, around 2,297 people were killed and 5,480 injured in road accidents showed a sharp rise in the death toll compared to the same period last year, said a report of National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways, an organisation campaigning for safety in the transport sector.
According to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, a passengers' welfare association, at least 322 people were killed and 759 others injured in 272 accidents on roads, waterways and railways across the country in 13 days during and after the Eid-ul-Azha vacation.
Bad condition of roads, over speeding and overtaking of vehicles, plying of slow-speed vehicles alongside high-speed ones and lack of awareness among passengers have been held responsible for road accidents.