At least four people were killed in road accidents in Cox’s Bazar, Bogra, Chuadanga and Khulna districts yesterday.
Our Cox’s Bazar correspondent reports: Two people were killed and three others injured as a bus hit them on the Chokoria-Maheshkhali Road in Chokoria upazila,
The deceased were identified as Obaidur Rahman, 15, and Manjurul Alam, 16, of Maijgona village in the upazila.
Chokoria police station Officer-in-Charge of Probas Chandra Dhar said the Maheshkhali-bound bus of ‘Shah Amin Paribahan’ hit a bicycle and three pedestrians at Maijgona village on the road around 1:30pm, leaving bicycle riders Obaidur and Manjurul-- dead on the spot and the pedestrians injured critically.
The injured were sent to Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
Police seized the bus but its driver managed to flee the scene, the OC added.
In Bogra, a sexagenarian woman was killed as a motorcycle hit her at Sariakandi upazila.
The deceased was identified as Badhuli, 65.
Police said, a bike hit Badhuli at Sahapara Tinmatha intersection around 12:30pm, leaving her seriously injured.
She was rushed to Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared her dead.
Our Chuadanga correspondent said a trader was killed in an accident at Dhamurhuda upazila in the district.
The deceased was identified as Sree Lal Das,23, son of Sunil Das of Karpas Danga College Para area. He was a shoe trader.
Police said the accident took place when a three wheeler coming from opposition direction hit another vehicle near a graveyard in the area, leaving Sunil critically injured.
Later, he died on the way to hospital.
Our Khulna correspondent said a schoolgirl was killed and her twin sister and father were injured in a road accident in front of Damodor Phultala School on the Khulna-Dhaka Highway.
The deceased was identified as Fahima, 14, a student of class IX of Damodor Phultala High School under Phultala upazila in the district.
The injured Sahima, 14, twin sister of the dead and their father Sub-Inspector Shajahan of Khanjahan Ali Police Station, were admitted to Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH).
The accident took place when a Jessore-bound speedy truck hit their motorcycle from behind, said Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Khanjahan Ali police station.
He said Fahima died on the spot and Shamia’s right leg and her father’s right hand was broken after the Jessore-bound truck crashed the motorcycle in Damodor area under Phultala upazila.
SI Shajahan was returning home in Patherbazar area under the police station from the School with his twin daughters the OC said, adding that driver along with the truck managed to flee.
The body was handed over to family members after autopsy.
A pall of gloom descended over the area following the tragic death of Fahima.
Our Munshiganj correspondent said: A passenger bus fell into a ditch along with a parked truck when two buses of Ilish Paribahan collided head on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway at Kuchiyamora in Sirajdikhan leaving 15 wounded.