At least ten people were killed in separate road accidents yesterday in Chittagong and Sylhet.
Our CU Correspondent reports: At least five persons were killed in separate road accidents yesterday in Chittagong’s Sitakunda upazila and in the city.
In Sitakunda, 4 people were killed in an accident on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway.
The deceased were Abul Kashem, 28, a bus driver from Noakhali, Obaidul Haque Pramanik, 30, a truck driver from Bogra, Nazmul Hossain, 24, from Pirojpur and Jarina Begum, 52, said police sources.
Sergeant Zillur Rahim, in-charge of Kumira Highway Police Outpost, said a Chittagong-bound Ananda Paribahan bus collided head-on with a tin laden truck on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway around 6:30am, leaving the two drivers and the woman dead on the spot and 11 others injured.
One of the injured, Nazmul, succumbed to his injuries at the Chittagong Medical College Hospital, a few minutes after being admitted, said Pankaj barua, assistant sub-inspector at CMCH Police Outpost.
Upon receiving information, police and fire fighters from Sitakunda Fire Station rushed to the spot and sent the injured to the CMCH and upazila heath complex, Sergeant Zillur added.
In another accident in Chittagong city’s Khulshi area, Md Nasir, 25, the son of Md Kabir from Comilla, was killed when a bus hit a pick-up van from behind at Nasirabad Government Women’s College intersection around 12am.
Nasir was taken to CMCH where the on duty doctors declared him dead, said CMCH Police Outpost sources.
Our Habiganj correspondent reports that at least five people were killed and five others were injured yesterday afternoon when a microbus collided head-on with a passenger bus around 4:10pm on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bahubal upzila, Habiganj.
The deceased could not be identified till the filing of this report.
Shayestaganj Highway police station Officer-in-Charge Azazur Rahman said they were trying to recover the bodies.