2 killed in city road crashes

A young bike rider and a minor boy were killed in separate road accidents in the capital yesterday.
In Mirpur, eight-year-old Zahidul Islam died as a bus hit him while crossing the road near his house at Muktijoddha Complex of Zoo Road around 4:00pm.
On information, police rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
In the other incident, a biker, aged about 22, was sandwiched between two vans at Kajla near Jatrabari around 10:00pm, said Aslam Ali, sub-inspector of Jatrabari Police Station.
Identity of the victim could not be immediately known.
He died instantly while the other rider on the back of the bike was slightly injured, Aslam added.