12 killed in road accidents
At least 12 people were killed and 29 others injured in separate road accidents in Chittagong, Chandpur, Naogaon, Sherpur, Mymensingh and Magura yesterday and on Wednesday.
CU correspondent adds: Three people were killed and four others injured in separate road accidents in the port city and district on Wednesday and yesterday.
Two people were killed and four others injured when a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Chandanaish College Gate area under Chandanaish upazila in the district at around 6.00am yesterday.
The auto-rickshaw driver Mohammad Kamal Hossain, 20, and passenger Rahim Uddin, 20, died on the spot while injured passengers Mohammad Ali, 60, Saiful Islam, 20, Mintu Mian, 20, and Nizam Uddin, 21, were rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH). They were undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Meanwhile, Humayun Kabir, 65, was killed when a speeding truck hit his rickshaw in front of Ocean City Shopping Centre near GEC intersection in the port city at around 3:30pm on Wednesday.
Humayiun was sent to CMCH where on-duty doctors declared him dead, sources said.
Our Correspondent from Chandpur adds: Two children were killed and two others seriously injured on Kochua-Kaliapara Road at Akania village under Kochua upazila yesterday.
The dead were identified as Shohag, 10, son of Md Sultan Ahmed and Sharmin Aktar, 8, daughter of late Abu Taher, of Akania village of Kochua upazila said police and witnesses.
A Dhaka-bound ambulance of a private clinic from Kochua Sadar ran over the two children while they were playing beside the road and plunged into a roadside pond due to reckless driving, witnesses said. The children died on the spot.
Local people rescued the injured driver and helper, who managed to flee saying they were staffs of a government hospital.
Police seized the ambulance.
Meanwhile, one Salahuddin Chowdhury Robin, 22, was killed in a separate road accident in Hajiganj Sadar on Wednesday evening.
The accident occurred when a motorcycle and a van collided head-on. Salahuddin was driving the motorcycle.
BSS from Rajshahi reports: Three people, including a woman, were killed and another was injured in a road accident at Deluabari on Rajshahi-Naogaon highway under Manda upazila of Naogaon district in the early hours of yesterday.
Police and hospital sources said, two of the deceased were identified as Biren, 55, and Khadem Ali, 35. The identity of the woman aged around 20 could not be known immediately.
The accident took place when a Naogaon-bound truck from Rajshahi hit a tempo carrying four passengers coming from opposite direction at around 5.30am.
Of the passengers, Khadem Ali died on the spot while driver of the tempo succumbed to his injuries at local Manda Upazila Health Complex.
Two injured passengers were rushed to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital where the female passenger succumbed to her injuries.
Police seized both the vehicles.
Another report from Sherpur adds: At least 25 people were injured, 18 of them critically, in a road accident on Sherpur-Kamalpur road at Mazpara under Sadar upazila yesterday.
The accident took place at about 12:00 noon when an overcrowded bus skidded off the road and fell into a roadside ditch while giving side to a truck coming from opposite direction, police and local people said.
The Dhaka-bound bus from Roumari was carrying about 70 passengers, the sources said.
The seriously injured people were rushed to Sherpur and Jamalpur Sadar Hospitals and the rest were given first aid.
Our correspondent from Mymensingh reports: A boy was killed in a road accident at Mashkanda on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in the district town yesterday.
The victim was identified as Ashik, 8, of Mashkanda.
Police and locals said the child was crushed under the wheels of a truck bound for Dhaka from Mymensingh while he was crossing the road yesterday morning, leaving him dead on the spot.
The body was sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) morgue for autopsy.
Meanwhile, a rickshawpuller was killed and woman passenger was injured critically in a road accident at the Northern site of Shambhuganj Bridge at Patgodam yesterday.
The dead was identified as Emdadul Haque, 25, of village Dhakirkanda in Phulpur upazila.
Police said the accident took place when a passenger bus bound for Mymensingh town from Netrokona knocked down the rickshaw from behind, killing the rickshawpuller on the spot and injuring the woman critically.
She was rushed to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) for treatment.
Our correspondent from Magura says: One person was killed in a road accident on Magura-Sreepur Road near Kadamtala yesterday.
Witnesses said a man was crushed under the wheels of a speeding truck while he was crossing the road at around 3:30pm.
The deceased was identified as Abdur Rashid of village Hatfadilpur in Shailakupa upazila of Jhenidah district. The body was sent for autopsy.
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