Five people were killed in Sylhet and Rajshahi in separate road crashes yesterday.
Four people were killed and another was injured as a pickup van collided head-on with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Karua in Sylhet, reports UNB. Three of the deceased were Hasmat, 45, of Oporpara village in Kanaighat upazila, Islam, 40, of Noagram village of the same upazila, and Kabir, 35, of Baroigram village in Jointapur upazila. Identity of the other deceased could not be known immediately.
Sub-Inspector Rakibul Islam of the Osmani Nagar police station said the Sylhet city-bound pickup van collided head-on with the auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction in the area at about 6am, leaving four people dead on the spot and another injured.
On information, police recovered the bodies and sent those to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital morgue for post mortem examination and injured Saiful was admitted to the same hospital.
In Rajshahi, a schoolboy was killed on the spot when a human haulier hit him at Roipara area on Rajshahi-Durgapur road under Durgapur upazila, Rajshahi. The deceased was Nayeem Islam, 6, a student of class one of Roipara Government Primary School, reports BSS.
Police said the accident happened when a human haulier hit the boy as he just appeared on the road from his school around 11:30am. Nayeem was on his way home from school after taking new books before death.
In protest against the death, local people stage demonstration on the road and reportedly vandalised five vehicles including the human haulier and three motorbikes.
Being informed police rushed to the scene and brought the situation under control, said Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Durgapur police station.