Two people were killed and 12 others injured as a Dhaka-bound train hit a sand-laden truck in Tenguria Para rail-crossing under Basail upazila in the morning.
The deceased were truck driver Sujat Ali, 32, of Ulla Para upazila and Helper Nijamuddin, 30, of Raigonj upazila in Sirajganj.
Police said a sand laden truck fell into a roadside water-filled ditch after being hit by a Dhaka-bound train of the Rangpur Express at Tenguriapara around 9am, leaving two dead on the spot and injuring 12 others.
Four people were killed in two separate road accidents in Chittagong. Highway Police found dead bodies of three youths with a smashed motorbike from the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Boro Darogarhat area of Mirsarai upazila.
The deceased were Arafatullah, 35, Kafil Uddin, 36, and Forkan, 22, of Banshkhali upazila.
Police suspect that their motorbike might have been hit by any heavy vehicles leaving them dead on the spot, he added.
In another incident, a housewife, Popi Begum, 18, was killed as a truck rammed her at the port city’s Majhirgaht area under Sadarghat police station around 8am.
Popy was rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital where she was pronounced dead by the on-duty doctors, said police.