Eighteen people were killed and 30 more were injured in separate road accidents in different parts of the country yesterday, reported our correspondents.
In the capital, two people were killed in different accidents.
A pedestrian was run over by a Demu train at the Kuril crossing in Baridhara yesterday morning. Witnesses said he came under the train while crossing the line between 9:30am and 10am.
Md Nazrul Islam, OC of Khilkhet police station, said: “The victim could not be identified, and the body was handed over to the Railway Police around 11am.”
The other victim, Abdus Samad, was killed in Khilgaon around 8am.
Samad, 50, was a cleaning staff of Dhaka North City Corporation. He was on his motorbike when an easybike hit him, leaving him critically injured.
Locals rushed him to Khimah Hospital, where the on-duty doctors pronounced him dead.
Sub-inspector Sabbir Alam of Khilgaon police station said: “The victim's wife Jarina Begum, 38, has filed a case against the driver of the easybike, Md Shah Alam, 33. We arrested the driver and seized the vehicle. The driver has been sent to court.”
In Brahmanbaria, a frontal collision between a truck and a CNG-run auto rickshaw on Dhaka-Sylhet highway killed six people in Bertola area under Sarail upazila around 3:15pm yesterday.
Sergeant Abdun Nur of Highway Police confirmed the incident. The victims could not be identified until the filing of this report.
In Jessore, the driver of a Benapole-bound bus lost control of the steering and collided with a tree on the Jessore-Banpole highway in Jhikargachha upazila around 6:30am, killing six people instantly and severely injuring 34 others.
Hearing the cries, locals rushed to the spot and took the injured to different hospitals.
Mosharraf Hossain, OC of Jhikargaccha police station, confirmed the incident and said four others died at hospitals later – one at Jhikargaccha Upazila Health Complex and three at Jessore Medical College Hospital.
