Six people died and more than 15 were injured in three separate road accidents in two days across the country.
In Chittagong, three people were killed and three others injured as a truck crashed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw yesterday.
The deceased were identified as Harunur Rashid, his maid Farjana of Fatikchhari upazila, and auto-rickshaw driver Jakir Hossain of Baro Quarter area of the city.
Quazi Shahabuddin Ahmed, the officer in charge of Patenga police station, said the speeding truck hit the auto-rickshaw in front of Jamuna Oil on the Airport Road around 6:30am. The three-wheeler driver died on the spot and its five passengers were injured.
Four of the injured were taken to Chittagong Medical College Hospital where attending doctors declared Harun dead around 7am while Farjana succumbed to her injuries at a nearby clinic, said the OC.
In Faridpur, a motorcyclist was killed and two others injured in an incident on the Boalmari-Faridpur road at Narikhali village in Madhukhali upazilla yesterday.
The deceased was identified as Md. Kalin Mandal, 30, of Sayedpur village in Boalmari upazila, Faridpur district.
The accident occurred when the motorcyclist hit a roadside tree after losing control, leaving him dead on the spot. The two passengers on the motorcycle were admitted to hospital.
In Narayanganj, two cyclists were killed and twelve others injured on Thursday at Probagaon village on the Modonpur-Gazipur road when a truck loaded with betel leaf ran over them.
The deceased were Farid Hossain, 40 and Al-Amin, 24, of Shadipur Village in Sonargaon upazila.
The injured were admitted to different clinics in the locality.
Sources said the Gazipur-bound truck ran over the bicycle and a CNG run auto rickshaw and left one cyclist dead on the spot and about twelve people including the CNG passengers and pedestrians injured. The other cyclist died later, in Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Police seized the truck but its driver and helper managed to escape the scene.
The officer in charge of Sonargaon police station, Atikur Rahman Khan, said because all of the involved parties had settled the matter, no case was filed.
