Five people, including a mother and her son, were killed and eight others were injured when a truck driver lost control over the steering wheel in Baghopara Bazar area in Bogra sadar upazila yesterday morning.
The dead are Afroza Akhter, 30, and her son Nurul Islam, 8, Loya Mia, Shanto, 40, and Ahmad Ali.
Bogra Sadar police station Officer-in-Charge Abul Basher said the driver of an iron rod-laden truck rammed a rickshaw and ploughed into a roadside fruit shop on the Bogra-Rangpur Highway around 10:30am.
The injured were admitted to Bogra Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital.
Another road accident left two persons dead and 13 others injured in the Satrasia area on the Mymensingh-Tangail Highway in Muktagacha upazila of Mymensingh district yesterday.
The dead are Abdul Halim, 60, and Chand Mia 50, both of whom hail from Kandualia village of the upazila.
Police said the accident occurred when a human hauler skidded off the road around 11pm.
The wounded were sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where two succumbed to their injuries.
