As many as seven people were killed in four separate road accidents in Chittagong and Feni districts on Wednesday.
In Chittagong,two people, including a child, were killed and three others were injured in a road accident near Putibila union parishad of Lohagara upazila around 12:45pm.
The deceased were identified as Md Tauhid, 25, from Putibila area; and Marium Jannat, 7, from Adhunagar Majhi Para area of the upazila.
According to Mohammad Atiqur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Lohagara police station, a collision between a motorcycle, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a dumping truck left the two dead on the spot.
“The dumping truck has been seized,” he added.
Meanwhile, two people were killed when an unknown vehicle hit a motorcycle in front of Kalka CNG station under the port city’s Pahartoli police station around 2:30pm.
The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.
Another woman was killed when an unidentified vehicle hit her at Jorarganj beside Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Chittagong’s Mirsarai upazila around 10:30am.
The deceased was indetified as Rehana Akter, 40, from South Sonapahar area of the upazila, said Sub-Inspector (SI) Alamgir Hossain, in-charge of Jorarganj Highway police station.
In Feni, two people, including a madrassah student, were killed when a bus rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Gobindapur Chaltatola on Sonagazi-Feni regional highway around 10am.
The deceased were identified as Md Nuruzzaman, 30, and Sharmin, 15, from North Gobindapur area under Kalidaha union of the district.
Nuruzzaman died on the spot while Sharmin died on her way to a hospital in Chittagong.
According to the police, the accident occurred when a bus lost control after one its front side tyres got punctured and collided with a CNG-run autorickshaw.
OC Abdur Rahim of Feni Model police Station said that the bodies have been sent to Feni General Hospital.
Besides, the bus and the CNG-run auto-rickshaw have also been seized, he added.