Schoolboy among three killed in road accidents
Three people -- including a schoolboy -- were killed and three injured in road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.
In Cumilla, two persons died and three were injured as a microbus fell into a roadside ditch after being hit by a truck in Daudkandi upazila.
The deceased are Sattar Mia, 65, and Dulal Bapary, 62. Both were residents of the upazila.
The Dhaka-bound truck hit the microbus from behind in front of Shahidnagar MA Jalil High School around 8:30am, said Md Jahangir, officer-in-charge of Daudkandi Highway Police Station.
One of the victims died on the spot and another was declared dead at a local hospital. The victims were passengers of the microbus, he said.
The truck toppled on its side upon impact, the OC said, adding that police seized both vehicles after the accident.
In Bogura, a nine-year-old boy was killed after a bus ran him over on Bogura-Naogaon regional highway in Adamdighi upazila.
Abu Bakar Siddique, son of Shamim Miah of Dalomba slum, was a student of class II at a local government primary school, said Adamdighi Police Station OC Rezaul Karim.
Quoting locals, the OC said a Bogura-bound bus from Naogaon hit the boy while he was going to a shop beside the highway to buy food around 8:00am.
The bus managed to flee the scene, he said. The body was handed over to the family without an autopsy.
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