At least five people were killed in road accidents in Gopalganj, Tangail,Joypurhat and Narail districts yesterday.
Our Gopalganj correspondent reports: A farmer was killed in an accident in Kalnaghat area under Kashiani upazila of the district.
Zakir Hossen, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station said Kallayni Mondol,49, of Bannabari village under Tungipara upazila were critically injured as a truck ran over him while he was coming from a local herbal practitioner in the afternoon.
Later, he was sent to Sadar Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Tangail correspondent said an unidentified man was killed in an accident on the Dhaka-Tangail-Bangabandhu Bridge road in the district.
Sergeant Md Asad said the accident took the place when passenger bus coming from opposition direction ran over the man, leaving him dead on the spot.
Following the incident, agitated people blocked the road for two hours.
Joypurhat correspondent said two people were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between two human haulers in Barkandi area under Panchbibi upazila of the district.
The deceased were identified as Dony Hossain and Bipul Chandra, drivers of the vehicles.
Locals said the accident took place on the Panchbibi-Barkandi road.
Panchbibi police station officer-in-charge Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal said Dony died on the spot while Bipul died after taken to Joypurhat District Hospital around 10pm.
The hospital emergency unit Doctor Mostafizur Rahman said: “Of the injured, passengers Hamidul and Joybor Ali have been sent to Bogra Shaheed Ziaul Rahman Medical College Hospital in a critical condition.”
Our Narail correspondent said a boy was killed in Maitkumra area on the Narail-Lohagara-Kalna Highway in Lohagara upazila of the district as a covered van hit him.
The deceased was identified as Billal Sheikh, 13, son of Dulu Sheikh of Kumarkanda village.
Lohagara police station officer-in-charge Sheikh Lutfer Rahman confirmed the incident.