Road accidents kill six
Six people were killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka, Natore, Jamalpur and Mymensingh on Saturday and yesterday.
Staff Correspondent reports, an unidentified man was killed after being run over by a bus on Kuril Bishwa Road in Khilkhet area of the capital yesterday.
The accident occurred at Shawra around 8:30am while the man, aged around 25 years, was crossing the road.
He was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he died around 10:10am.
Our Natore correspondent says, a Chapainawabganj-bound truck hit a stationed truck on Bonpara-Hatikumrul highway at Nayabazar in Gurudaspur upazila around 5:00am yesterday, killing two people.
The deceased are Hasan Ali, 55, passenger of the running truck and its helper Badsha Mian, 32.
Badsha succumbed to his injuries at Natore Sadar Hospital.
In another accident, Shafiqul Islam, a madrasa teacher, died as a truck crushed him while he was crossing a road at Madhabpur village in Lalpur upazila at about 8:00am yesterday.
In Jamalpur, a minor girl was killed as a microbus ran her over on Jamalpur-Tangail highway in Dikpait Nafurpara area of the sadar upazila yesterday noon.
The deceased was identified as Mira, 8, daughter of Majibar Rahman of Tulsipur village in the upazila.
In Mymensingh, an imam of a mosque was killed on the spot and another was injured as a speeding microbus knocked them while they were walking beside Gafargoan-Hossainpur road at Dugachia village in Gafargoan upazila on Saturday morning.
The dead is Mahtab Uddin, 75.
Injured Anisur Rahman, 55, was admitted to a local clinic.
Following the incident, local people put up barricades on the road for two hours. Later, police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.
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