At least eight people were killed in road accidents in Brahmanbaria,Sirajganj and Gazipur districts yesterday.
Our Brahmanbaria correpondent reports: Three people were killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw plunged into a canal after colliding with a microbus at Narayanpur under Akhaura upazila. The identities of the deceased could not be known.
Akhaura police station Officer-in-Charge Mofiz Uddin said: “The auto-rickshaw collided head-on with the microbus on Dhaka-Agartala highway and plunged into the canal at noon. Three of them died on the spot.”
He said three passengers of the auto-rickshaw went missing in the incident.
In Sirajganj, three people of a family were killed as a bus rammed their motorcycle on the link road of Bangabandhu Bridge west side in Sadar upazila at afternoon.
Two of the deceased were identified as Babul Hossain 40 and his wife Mahfuza,32.
Quoting locals, officer-in-charge of Bangabandhu West police station Helal Uddin Locals said the Dhaka-bound bus of ‘Pabna Express’ hit the motorbike around 5:30 pm, leaving the three riders of the bike dead on the spot.
In Gazipur, two female workers were killed when a passenger bus run over them nearby Pandora Garments Factory in Sreepur upazila of the district.
