UNB :
Two unidentified women and a trucker were killed and nine others injured in separate road accidents amid dense fog in Munshiganj and Natore districts respectively early Monday, said the authorities.
The trucker Hossain was a resident from Jhenaidah’s Kaliganj upazila.
Md Safiur Islam, deputy director at Munshiganj fire station, said a speeding private car rammed into a covered van from behind after losing control on Dhaka-bound lane on Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Kuchiamor area of Sirajdikhan upazila of the district early in the morning.
The accident left an unidentified woman in the car killed and five others injured, he said. The vehicular movement resumed after both the vehicles were removed from the expressway, the fire service official said, suspecting that dense fog caused the accident.
Separately a trucker was killed and four others were injured in a road accident involving six trucks amid the dense fog in Naopara Jute Mill area under Natore Sadar upazila around 5am, said Firoz Hossain, in-charge of Paba highway police station.
The injured were rushed to Sadar General Hospital, he said. On the other hand, the unidentified woman was killed when a speeding truck ran over her in Chandpur area of the Sadar upazila, he added.
