At least six people including two doctors have been killed and eight others injured in road accidents in Mymensingh and Narsingdi on Friday morning.
In Narsingdi, three people including two physicians died instantly in a head-on collision between a truck and a microbus on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Kundarpara bus stand area under Shibpur upazila in the morning.
The two are National Heart Institute doctor Smrity Kona, 35, and Dhaka Medical College Medicine and Heart department doctor Kalimulla, 50 while the rest is microbus driver Manir, 35, an employee of Aristopharma Ltd, says Etakhula Highway police Sub-Inspector Md Mizanur Rahman.
Besides, six physicians were critically injured in the accident, who were referred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital from the district hospital when their condition deteriorated.
The doctors were moving towards Bhairav for private practice by the microbus.
In Mymensingh, three people died on the spot and two got injured as a CNG-run autorickshaw and a truck collided head-on with each other in Chechuakuripara under Muktagachha upazila around 7:45am.
The three included a woman and their identities could not be known immediately, says Muktagachha police station OC Fazlul Karim.
The injured were admitted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. All of the five were passengers of the autorickshaw.
Sunday, March 23, 2025
