Road crashes kill five
RMG worker's death in N'ganj leads to torching of bus, blocking of Dhaka-Ctg highway
Workers of a garment factory in Narayanganj set a bus on fire after it ran over one of their fellows in Sonargaon upazila around 7:30am yesterday.
Meanwhile, four people were killed and six others injured in road accidents in Cox's Bazar and Mymensingh yesterday.
In the Narayanganj accident, Md Aman Ullah, 27, son of Md Salauddin of Barisal, a worker of Chaiti garment factory, died as a bus of Swadesh Paribahan hit him at Treepardi and then fell into a roadside ditch injuring at least 10 of its passengers.
Protesting the incident, the agitating workers also vandalised some 10 vehicles and blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong highway for two hours, reports our Narayanganj correspondent.
A chase and counter chase took place between police and the workers as the law enforcers baton-charged the demonstrators to disperse them, police told Prothom Alo.
In Cox's Bazar, two pedestrians were killed and another was injured when a bus of Shah Aman Paribahan ran them over on Chakaria-Moheshkhali road, our Cox's Bazar correspondent reports.
The dead were Manjur Alam, 17, son of Md Kalu, and Chotan Mian, 14, son of Dalilur Rahman. Injured Hamid Nur was rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
Our Mymensingh correspondent adds, Abdus Salam, 45, Jubo Unnayan officer of Sreebordi upazila in Sherpur district, died when a Tangail-bound truck collided head-on with his motorbike in Kathgola Bazar in Mymensingh town yesterday afternoon.
In Phulpur upazila, an unidentified CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver, aged about 25, was killed and its five passengers injured when a truck collided with the vehicle at Golchattar on Mymensingh-Sherpur road yesterday. Three of the injured were rushed to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.