At least six people were killed and five others were injured in three separate road accidents in Rajshahi yesterday.
Officer-in-Charge of Mohanpur police station said a goods-laden truck hit a three-wheeler locally known as Bhotbhoti in front of Kehserhat Cold Storage leaving Jahangir Alam, 35, a schoolteacher, dead on the spot.
Two other passengers of the human haulier died on the way to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
But identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. The bodies have been kept at the RMCH morgue, OC Hamid said.
Meanwhile, two people were killed in Baneshwar area, Puthia upazila in the morning.
Local sources said a pickup van and a truck had collided head-on around 7:30am leaving two passengers of the pickup van seriously injured. Later, they died on the way to RMCH. The deceased have been identified as Nazmul Haque, 35, and Mizanur Rahman, 50, of Nachol under Chapainawabganj,
Meanwhile, another man was killed after a truck hit a passenger van in Kharkari Bypass area of the city around 6:30am. The deceased has been identified as Jainal Abedin of the area.