Road crashes claim seven lives in Tangail, Jashore

News Desk :
At least seven people were killed and several others were injured in two separate road crashes in Tangail and Jashore on Friday.
In Tangail: At least three people were killed in a head-on collision between a pickup and an autorickshaw.
Madhupur police station OC Tariq Kamal said the Jamalpur-bound three-wheeler and the Madhupur-bound pickup van collided on the Madhupur-Jamalpur regional highway in the morning, leaving a man, a woman and a child severely injured.
They were then whisked off to Madhupur Upazila Health Complex, where the doctors pronounced them dead. The two vehicles involved in the accident have been seized, he said, adding that police are still trying to identify the deceased.
Two people were killed and at least five were injured after a bus and a covered van collided head on.
The victims of this incident are also yet to be identified.
In Jashore: Two men in their 50s died after being hit by a speeding bus while crossing the Jashore-Khulna Highway in the district’s Abhaynagar upazila on Thursday night.
The deceased were identified as Subed Ali, 55, and Kubed Ali, 54, both residents of Paba upazila of Rajshahi.
The accident occurred around 8.45 pm on the Jashore-Khulna Highway near Prembag School in the upazila when the two men returning from picnic in the Sunderbans alighted from their vehicle and attempted to cross the busy highway.
The bus of Rupsha Paribahan hit the duo and sped away, leaving the duo severely injured, eye-witnesses said. Both died of their injuries on the way to hospital. Siddikur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Noapara Highway police station, said the bus was seized.
“Efforts are on to arrest its driver and his assistant.”