A total of six people were killed and two others were injured in separate road accidents in the country over the last two days.
In Chittagong, a motorcyclist was killed after being hit by a truck on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway near Barawlia of Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong yesterday, reports our correspondent.
The dead Md Amir Ali, 30, was the son of late Omor Uddin from Shalmara in Kurigram district.
Officer-in-Charge Sayed Jakir Hossen of Barawlia Highway Police Outpost said the accident took place after a speeding truck hit the motorbike from behind in front of International Islamic University, Chittagong.
In another incident, a college student was killed after a bus hit his bicycle at Badamtoli in Mirsarai upazila of the district yesterday.
The deceased Riaz Mahmud, 17, was a second year student of Prof Kamal Uddin Chowdhury College at Abu Torab in the upazila.
Witnesses said the accident took place around 8:30am when a Green Line bus hit Riaz’s bicycle while he was on his way to private coaching classes, leaving him dead.
Police recovered the body and sent it to Chittagong Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy and managed to seize the bus, the driver unfortunately managed to escape.
In Narayanganj, at least three people were killed and two others injured after a private car rammed into a covered van on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Kanchpur early yesterday.
The deceased were identified as Jashimuddin, 36, son of Abdul Jalil of Bajankara village in Chauddagram upazila of Comilla district, Mostofa Mia, 56, son of Hafez Ahmed of Charipur village, and Abdul Alim, 32, son of Abdul Haque of Daulatpur village in Feni district.
Sohel Ahmed, in-charge of Kanchpur highway police camp, said the accident took place in the area when the Dhaka-bound private car slammed into the covered van from behind, leaving three passengers of the car dead on the spot and two others injured.
In Sylhet, a schoolgirl was killed in a road accident on the Sylhet-Fenchuganj Road in Mohammadpur area in the Dakkhin Surma upazila on Friday.
The deceased Mashrafa Ahmed Suma, 11, was daughter of Helal Ahmed of the area and a class V student of a local primary school.
Sources said the accident took place on the road around 4pm when a private car ran over Suma when she was returning home from a marriage ceremony on foot along with her family members. Duty doctors declared her dead after she was taken to the hospital, sources added.
The car sped away after the incident, they said.
