Four people, including a teenage student, were killed in two separate road accidents in Dhaka and Gaibandha on Friday.
In Dhaka's Kurmitola, the accident also left an eight-year-old girl named Sadia injured.
Two people -- Shamim Mridha, 35, an employee of DPDC and his cousin Jannatul Ferdous Jannati, 18, a college student – died in the accident. Sadia is their niece and is being treated at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). They were on a motorbike during the accident.
Jannat's elder brother Rahat Hossain said Shamim and some other relatives including Sadia's parents came to visit his house at Kuril Bishwa Road area on Thursday evening.
They sustained injuries after a car hit their motorcycle when they were going to Vashantek around 2am on Friday near Kurmitola General Hospital, he said, adding Sadia's parents were on another bike.
They were rushed to the Kurmitola General Hospital and later shifted to DMCH where Jannat died around 4am, police and hospital sources said.
Shamim breathed his last around 11am on Friday.
The bodies have been kept at DMCH morgue for autopsies, said Masud Mia, assistant sub-inspector of the hospital police outpost.
The matter has been informed to the concerned Banani police station, added the ASI.
In Gaibandha, two people died in a bus-car collision on Dhaka-Rangpur Highway at Gobindaganj upazila's Pantapar area on Friday morning.
The deceased are car driver Mizan Miah, 35, and his passenger Abul Bashar Miah, 55.
Locals said the car was headed towards Rangpur city.
When the car reached the Pantapar area around 7am, it collided head-on with the bus, police said, adding that the two died on the spot.
The bus was seized before its driver managed to flee.