Four people were killed in two separate road accidents in the last two days in Chittagong and Rajbari. Three people were injured in one of the accidents, report our correspondents.
In Chittagong, two people were killed and three others were injured in a head-on collision between a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a pick-up van on Dhaka-Chittagong highway, Mirsarai upazila yesterday.
The deceased were Fazlul Karim, 52, and Md Shahjahan, 65.
Iftekhar Hasan, officer-in-charge of Jorarganj police station, said the accident took place at the Mithasara Bypass area on Dhaka-Chittagong highway around 12:30pm when a CNG-run auto rickshaw, carrying five passengers, collided head-on with a pick-up van coming from the opposite direction. Local rushed the five to the upazila heath complex where doctors declared two of them dead, the OC added.
Police seized the pick-up van but the driver and his assistant managed to flee.
In Rajbari, two people were in a road accident on Rajbari-Kushtia road at Pangsha upazila on Wednesday night. The dead were Arif Billah, 22, of village Keyapara and Kulsum Bibi, 65, of village Bhatshala.
Khoybar Mallik, husband of Kulsum said the accident took place around 9pm as Arif hit Kulsum when they were crossing the road. Locals came to the spot and rush them to Pangsha Upazila Health Complex but both of them died on the way, he added.
Police recovered the bodies and sent those to Rajbari Sadar Hospital morgue for post mortem examination.
Two separate UD cases were filed with Pangsha police station.