Despite being a holiday, at least 16 people, including three of a family, were killed and several others injured in separate road accidents across the country on Friday.
Head-on collisions were to blame for all but one of the accidents.
In Mymensingh alone, a maximum of seven people died after a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run autorickshaw in the Alalpur area of Mymensingh Sadar Upazila around 11am, Md Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kotwali model police station, said.
The OC said a Sherpur-bound Adil Paribahan bus collided head-on with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction, killing all seven people on the three-wheeler on the spot.
Four of the deceased are Babul Ahmed, 45; his wife Shila Akter, 35; their seven-year-old son Md Sadman; and autorickshaw driver Al Amin Hossain, 25. The rest of the victims could not be identified immediately.
The bodies were sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy. Traffic on the road came to a halt for an hour following the accident.
In Moulvibazar, three people were killed and four others were injured in a head-on collision between two CNG-powered autorickshaws on the Moulvibazar-Sylhet regional highway at Rajanagar.
The deceased are Raju Ahmed, 20, Shahel Ahmed, 22, and Fahim alias Naim Ahmed, 20, the police said.
The accident took place when an autorickshaw bound for the Tarapasha area from Dashtila hit another one bound for Dashtila, leaving Raju dead on the spot and six others injured, said the OC.
The two other injured people died on the way to the hospital.
In Jamalpur, two teenage boys were killed when their motorcycle hit a roadside tree in Shahbajpur Union in the afternoon.
The deceased are Kakon, 15, and Sinhad, 14.
In Bogra, a head-on collision between two trucks killed three people around 5:30am on the Natore-Bogra Highway in Shahjahanpur.
The victims are Al Amin, 39; Kuddus Mia, 37; and Nur Islam, 22.
Amin and Kuddus were the drivers of the trucks.
In Faridpur, a motorcyclist was killed and a pillion rider was injured after being hit by a truck coming from the opposite direction in Nagorkanda around 8am.
The deceased is Rabiul Islam, 25.
After the accident, the bus caught fire, which was doused immediately.
In Chuadanga, a pedestrian was killed after a speeding bus rammed over him in Damurhuda Upazila.
The deceased is Mofiz Uddin, 65. His body was sent to the morgue of a local hospital.
Our Mymensingh correspondent Sultan Mahmud, Moulvibazar correspondent Sailful Islam, and Jamalpur correspondent Bishwajit contributed to the report
