Road crashes kill 22 in 3 days
UNB
Twenty-two people were killed in road accidents in several districts in three separate days during the Eid vacation, reports UNB. Nine of them were killed in Mymensingh and Comilla on Tuesday while 10 in Rangpur, Chuadanga and Laxmipur on Friday and three in Manikganj and Panchagrah on Saturday.
In Mymensingh, eight people were killed and 12 others injured as a human hauler, locally known as Leguna, tumbled into a roadside ditch at Churkhai Beltali on Mymensingh-Dhaka highway in Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.
Abdur Rahman, senior officer of Mymensingh Fire Station, said the Mymensingh-bound human hauler from Dhaka fell into the ditch around 7:30am after its driver lost control over the steering, leaving five people dead on the spot and 15 others injured.
Comilla, an unknown person was killed and eight others were injured as a bus went down a roadside ditch at Khadghar on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Chandina on Tuesday morning.
In Rangpur, six members of a family were killed as a bus crashed into a battery-run human-hauler they were travelling in at Jhigatala in Taraganj upazila on Friday afternoon.
Officer-in-charge of Taraganj Police Station Abdul Latif said the Rangpur-bound bus from Syedpur hit the three-wheeler in the area around 5:45 pm, killing the six on the spot.
In Chuadanga, three teenagers were killed and two others injured as a shallow engine-run human hauler overturned after crashing into a tree in Alamdanga upazila on Friday afternoon.
Yet in another accident in Laxmipur, Neon, 16, son of Abdur Rahim of Denayetpur in Raipur upazila, was killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw hit a motorcycle in Raipur bus terminal in the evening.
In Manikganj, two drivers were killed and 20 people injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Golra on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Saturia upazila early Saturday.
Officer-in-charge of Golra Highway Police Station Nurul Alam said the bus of Golden Line Paribahan was going to Barisal from Gabtali in the capital at night.
In Panchagrah, a bank official was killed as his motorcycle fell into a roadside ditch in Amarkhana in Sadar upazila on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Abu Sayeed Reza, principal officer of Uttara Bank in the capital and a resident of Gobindaganj upazila in Gaibandha district.
