Four people were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a CNG-run autorickshaw near Shamolipara bus stand under Ullapara upazila in Sirajganj.
Officer-in-Charge of Ullapara police station told the Dhaka Tribune that a Pabna-bound onion-laden truck had collided head on with a autorickshaw coming from the opposite direction on Monday night, leaving seven people critically injure.
He said locals took them to a local clinic at night. Later, they died when shifted to Sirajganj Sadar Hospital in the early hours of yesterday.
The deceased are Bachu Sheikh, 30, Alamgir Hossain, 25, Biplob Hossain and Fulchad Promanik, 40. OC of Hatikumrul highway police station Abdul Kader said they had seized the truck and detained its driver Mudhu Biswas soon after the accident.
A UNB report adds: two people were killed and another injured in
two separate road accidents in Gazipur and Chapainawabganj yesterday morning.
In Gazipur, a covered van driver was killed and his helper injured as it collided with another vehicle at MC Bazar area on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway in Shibpur upazila early morning on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Yusuf Ali, 35, son Afaz Uddin, a resident of Pachgaon village in Araihazar Upazila of Narayanganj district.
ASI of Maona Highway Police Station Md Babul Islam said a covered van of continental courier service hit another truck as its driver lost his control over the wheels at the area around 5.15am, leaving Afaz Uddin dead on the spot and his helper injured.
In Chapainawabganj, an ambulance driver was killed as the ambulance fell into a ditch at Fotepur area in Sadar upazila early morning on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Abed Ali, 50, son of Ohab Ali hailing from Station para in the Rohanpur municipality of the district and an ambulance driver of Gomastapur Upazila Health Complex.
Our Kishoreganj correspondent reports: Three people including a driver of a CNG-run autorickshaw were killed in Katabaria area in the evening. The deceased are Raju Mia, 25, Somrat, 20, and driver Gopal Mia, 50.
