Staff Reporter :
At least seven people, including three in Mymensingh, were killed and several others injured in separate road accidents across the country on Tuesday.
In Mymensingh, at least three people were killed when a pickup van collided with a truck on Mymensingh-Sherpur highway in Tarakanda upazila health complex area on Tuesday morning.
The victims were identified as lorry driver Kamrul Islam, 25, and two passengers Abdul Kadir, 45, and Mizanur Rahman, 45, hailing from Haluaghat upazila of Mymensingh.
The pickup van driver Kamrul died on the spot and two others injured were taken to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared them dead.
Md Wazed Ali, Officer-in-charge of Tarakanda Police Station, confirmed the matter to the media.
In Jhenaidah, three people were killed and four others injured as a CNG-run autorickshaw collided head-on with a sand-laden truck in Maheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah on Tuesday.
The incident took place in the Bhalaipur area of Maheshpur-Khalishpur road around 7:30 am, said Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Maheshpur Police Station.
The deceased were identified as Kashem Mia, 55, of Ghugri village, and Alamgir Hossain, 36, and Kamal Hossain, 60, of Pantapara village in the upazila.
The injured are Taslima Khatun, 25, Salim Hossain, 52, Akidul Islam, 36, and Kalu Mia, 62.
Quoting locals, OC Mahbubur said when the auto-rickshaw was heading towards Khalishpur from Maheshpur in the morning, it collided head on with the truck coming in from the opposite direction.
In Dhaka, a pedestrian was run over by a speedy bus in the capital’s Gulistan on Tuesday evening.
The deceased was identified as Yunus Sikder, 49, a clothe trader of Madaripur, said Inspector Bachchu Miah, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College Hospital police outpost. The accident took place at around 5:00pm when a Victor Classic ran over the man in front of BRTC bus stand in Gulistan’s Fulbaria.
Bachchu Miah said, Yunus was pronounced dead around 6pm by on duty doctors at the DMCH when police brought him to the hospital.
