At least six people were killed and over 20 others injured in two separate road accidents in Chittagong city on Friday.
In the city’s EPZ area, three people were killed when a bus hit them in the Khalpar area around 12:30pm.
EPZ police sub-inspector (SI) Rupak Das said a bus hit a pedestrian before ramming a rickshaw, killing three people on the spot.
The deceased were identified as Arafa Begum, from EPZ Khalpar area, her eight-year-old granddaughter Ayesha Akter Meem, from Cox's Bazar and pedestrian Md Rezaul, from Kurigram.
Meanwhile, a collision between a bus, a minibus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw left at least three people dead and over 20 others injured on the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar Highway.
The incident occurred in the afternoon when a BRTC bus heading towards Cox's Bazar hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw before crashing into a minibus heading towards Chittagong city in the Moijjartek area under the Karnaphuli police station.
Karnaphuli police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Dulal Mahmud confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.
One of the deceased was identified as Nurul Afsar from Shantirhat area of Patiya, said Shilbrat Barua, assistant sub-inspector of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH).
The condition of eight of them is critical, he added.