At least eight people have killed in seperate road accidents in Munshiganj and Gazipur districts on Wednesday.
Our Munshiganj correspondent reported that four people were killed in an accident on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway at Nimtoli under Sirajdikhan upazila of the district.
Eardous Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sirajdikhan police station, said a passenger bus of Ilish Pribahan rammed into a three wheeler locally known as 'Lguna' on the highway leaving Russel,30, Ershad, 32, and two unidentified persons dead on the spot. 30 people were also injured in the accident.
Locals vandalised several vehicles at the incident and blocked the highway.
The injured were sent to local hospitals and clinics.
In Gazipur, four people, including a student of Notre Dam College, were killed and 20 others injured in separate road accidents in the district, said our correspondent.
Sub-Inspector Nazmul Haque of Tongi police station said a Dhaka-bound bus hit Zakir Hossain, 18, Class XI student of Notre Dame College, in Cherag Ali area on the Dhaka- Mymensingh Highway while he was crossing the road, leaving him critically injured.
Local people rescued him and sent to Tongi Hospital. He died when he was being taken to United Hospital at Dhaka.
An unidentified youth was crushed under the wheels of a speedy bus in Tongi on the highway, added the SI.
Former UP member Ahsan Ullah was killed as a speedy truck hit him in Bhabani Bazar area on the highway around 9pm when he was returning home.
Besides, a bus driver was killed and 20 passengers were injured in a triangular collision among two buses and a CNG run auto-rickshaw in Shafipur area in Kaliakoir upazila on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in the morning.
