Eight killed, 11 injured in road crashes

Eight people were killed and 11 others injured in road accidents in Habiganj, Gazipur, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, and Patuakhali yesterday.
Our Sylhet correspondent says: Three people were killed in two separate road accidents in Habiganj district yesterday.
Two of the victims died in a bus-pickup collision at Bahubal on Dhaka-Sylhet highway. Identities of the deceased -- driver and helper of the pickup -- could not be known immediately.
In another accident, a bus helper died on the spot when the vehicle skidded into a ditch at Sadabpur in Habiganj yesterday. Details of the victim could not be known immediately.
UNB from Gazipur reports: A woman was killed and her minor daughter wounded critically when a bus hit them on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Porabari of the sadar upazila yesterday.
Nasrin, 30, of Nababganj in Dhaka, died on the spot. Her daughter Mim, 7, was taken to Gazipur sadar hospital.
In the same upazila, an unidentified rickshaw van driver aged about 40 was crushed under the wheels of a Dhaka-bound private car in Maleker Bari area yesterday noon.
Our Gaibandha correspondent says: A man was killed and five people injured after an improvised engine-run three-wheeler rammed a rickshaw van on Rangpur-Bogra highway at Dhaperhat in the district yesterday.
Abul Kashem, 32, of Dhaperhat village, died on the spot. The injured were taken to Sadulyapur health complex.
Our Lalmonirhat correspondent reports: A truck driver was killed and four people wounded after the vehicle collided head-on with a bus at Bawra in Patgram upazila of the district yesterday.
Yakub Ali, 40, of Goddimari village of Hatibandha upazila, died on the spot. The injured were under treatment at Patgram Upazila Health Complex.
Our Patuakhali correspondent says: A college student died after he lost control over his motorcycle and rammed a woman on Patuakhali-Kuakata road at Basakbazar in the district yesterday.
Asaduzzaman, student of class XI of Ishaq Model College in Patuakhali town, was declared dead at Patuakhali General Hospital where he and the injured woman were taken in critical condition.