Two people were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a pickup on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Baguchi in Chauddagram upazila on Friday.
Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Mohammad Faisal, officer-in-charge of Chauddagram police station, said a Comilla-bound ‘Madina Paribahan’ bus from Feni collided head-on with a pickup coming from the opposite direction, leaving two pickup passengers killed on the spot and its driver and helper injured.
In another road accident, a man was killed at Chouddogram upazila around 11am. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, 25, a resident of Someshpur village of the upzila.
In Tangail, two people were killed and four others injured when a truck rammed into a pickup on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway at Jamurki in Mirzapur upazila in the early hours of Friday.
Police said a Dhaka-bound pineapple-laden truck from Madhupur collided head-on with a pickup coming from the opposite direction, leaving the pickup driver dead on the spot and five others injured.
Of the injured, a pineapple trader died on way to Mirzapur upazila Health Complex while the others got admitted to the hospital.
The identities of the deceased could not yet be known.
A man was killed on the spot and at least 25 others injured after a collision between a bus and an octane-carrying lorry in Chittagong's Sitakunda.
Police said a Cox's Bazar-bound bus lost control over the steering and plunged into a roadside ditch. Assistant of the driver died on the spot.
