At least 14 people were killed in separate road accidents in several districts across the counrty.
In Sunamganj, four people were killed as a truck crashed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Hasnabad on the Sylhet-Chhatak highway in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj in the morning.
Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Officer-in-charge of Chhatak Police Station Ashok Suja Mamun said the Chhatak-bound truck smashed the three-wheeler in the area at about 8am, leaving its four passengers dead on the spot. On information, police recovered the bodies.
Police also seized the truck but its driver and helper managed to flee the scene.
An unidentified woman was killed at Bhogra bypass intersection, Gazipur.
The 45-year-old woman was hit by a bus when she was crossing the road, said Bahar Alam, sub-inspector of Gazipur Highway police, adding that she died on the spot.
In Tangail, three people, including a cattle trader were killed in a road acciden.
Sergeant Asad told the Dhaka Tribune that a human haulier collided head on with a bus in Kandila area around 8am, leaving four people injured.
They were taken to Tangail Sadar Hospital where Sudev Chandra Ghotok, 38, and Bulbul, 35, died.
In Jamalpur, Five people were injured in a head on collision between two vehicles in Durmuth Hatiza Tuesday night.
Of the injured, Hasibul and Jihad died in Mymensingh Medical College Hospital yesterday afternoon.
In Brahmanbaria, three women were killed when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch Islamabad area in the afternoon. The deceased are Shamsunnahar, 40, Aziza Begum, 45, and Afia Begum, 45.
In Patuakhali, a woman was killed after a good-laden truck ran over her near Bosak Bazar around 11am. The deceased was identified as Jahanara Brgum, a resident of Maidan Madrasa area under Awliapur upazila.