Three people were killed and several others injured in road accidents in Netrokona, Rajshahi and Satkhira districts in the last two days.
Our Netrokona correspondent reports: A person was killed and five others injured in a road accident on the Netrokona-Kalmakanda Road at Ashabari under Kalmakanada upazila in the district on Saturday morning.
The dead Abdul Hakim, 45, was from Chowgacha village under Kalmakanda upazila.
According to police and local sources, the accident occurred around 10am when the driver of a Kalmakanda-bound passenger human hauler from Netrakona lost control over the steering. The human hauler fell into a roadside ditch.
Police said Abdul Hakim, a passenger, died on the spot and five others received injuries. Of the injured, two women were sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital in critical condition.
Police detained the human hauler but the driver had managed to flee the scene.
A case was filed with Kalmakanda Police Station in this connection.
Meanwhile, a person was killed and four others injured in two separate road accidents in Rajshahi on Friday.
Witnesses said Manowara Begum, 35, wife of Abdul Hamid of Muraripur area in Paba, died on the spot when a motorcycle hit her while she was crossing a road in the area around 1:30pm, reports UNB.
In another incident, four people were injured after a speeding truck hit a human hauler. The human hauler fell into a roadside ditch in Kharkhari Bypass area around 2:30pm.
The injured were rushed to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
Uttam Kumar, officer-in-charge of Rajsahi Medical College Hospital police camp, said of those injured the condition of Maksed Ali was critical.
In another accident in Satkhira, a young man was killed after a truck hit his bicycle at Tuzulpur Bazar on the Satkhira-Jessore Highway in the sadar upazila on Friday.
The dead Sohagh Hossain, 22, was son of Abul Kashem of Chupria village in the upazila.
Shahjahan Khan, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said Sohagh had met the tragic death after a Dhaka-bound goods-laden truck hit the bicycle he was riding around 9:30pm.
He said the police, on information, had recovered the body and sent it to Sadar Hospital morgue.
