Published on 12:00 AM, May 23, 2017

No end to bloodspill on Roads

Four lives lost

Four people were killed and five others injured in rpad accidents in the country yesterday. 

Our Sylhet correspondent reports, a woman and her one-year-old boy were killed and five others were injured as a Jaaflong-bound bus plunged into a ditch beside Sylhet-Tamabil highway in Mohammadpur area at Goainghat upazila.

The dead were Shilpy Akther, 30, and Saad Ahmed.

The injured, including Shilpy's husband Al-Amin, were rushed to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.

Our Dinajpur correspondent adds, a motorcyclist, Ahad Ali Mondal, 65, former ward member of Shalkhuria union parishad and resident of Tikhur village, died as a bus hit his vehicle at Dalardarga village in Nawabganj upazila.

Our Jhenidah correspondent adds, Piyash Hossain, 27, son of Jamal Uddin of Kayergachi village, died as his motorbike rammed into a bus in Chalabhara bus stand area on Jhenaidah-Jesssore road.

Police sent the body to Jhenaidah sadar hospital morgue for autopsy.