Eight people, including a 10-year-old, died and 22 others were injured in road crashes in different districts yesterday.

In Savar, three men were killed and four others were wounded as a human hauler collided with a bus in Kalma area on C&B-Ashulia road last night, said Dipak Chandra Saha, officer-in-charge of Savar Model Police Station.

After seven people injured in the crash were taken to Enam Medical College Hospital, doctors declared Fazlul Fakir, 40, Nasir Uddin, 40, and Fahim, 19, dead, he added.

In Barishal, a man died and 15 others were injured when a bus of Islampur Paribahan collided with a bus of SR Paribahan in Kashimpur area on the Dhaka-Barishal highway around 3:30pm.

Kalam, driver of the SR Paribahan bus, died on the spot, said Inspector Lokman Hossain of Airport Police Station, adding that the injured were admitted to a local hospital.

The accident disrupted traffic movement on the highway for a while, he added.

In Rajbari's Baliakandi, 10-year-old Abu Sayeed died and his cousin Emran got injured in a motorcycle crash in the afternoon.

Police said Emran, who was riding the motorcycle with Sayeed as the pillion passenger, lost control and fell near Gharakola Government Primary School.

Sayeed died at the scene, said Assaduzzaman, officer-in-charge of Baliakandi Police Station.

In Narsingdi, a businessman named Anwar Hossain, 40, died when an auto-rickshaw hit him near the UMC Jute Mills around 3:00pm.

Anwar died shortly after he was taken to Narsingdi Sadar Hospital.

In Gazipur, two people died in separate crashes. One of them, Rony, who was riding a motorcycle, lost control and collided with an auto-rickshaw near Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park on Bhabanipur road, said Mahtab Uddin, officer-in-charge of Joydebpur Police Station.

The officer added that Rony died at the scene.

In Salna area on Gazipur-Mymensingh highway, an elderly man named Sadek Hossain died on the spot and two others were wounded as a pickup rammed into a three-wheeler in the afternoon.

The victims were on the three-wheeler, said Ziaul Islam, OC of Gazipur Sadar Police Station.

The injured were sent to Gazipur Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Medical College Hospital, he added.

[Our correspondents in Savar, Barishal, Faridpur, Gazipur and Narsingdi contributed to this report.]