5 killed in separate road crashes in Cumilla
Five people were killed in two separate road accidents in Cumilla's Daudkandi today (7 December), police said.
Around 7am, in the upazila's Shaistanagar area, two brick kiln labourers on a tractor were killed when a bus hit them on the Dhaka-Kachua road, said police's Gauripur Investigation Center Sub-Inspector (SI) Md Helal.
The deceased were identified as Borhan, 28, and Mohammad Ali, 32.
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SI Helal said the two workers died on the spot after a Dhaka-bound Al-Arafa Paribahan bus hit the brick-laden tractor, which then overturned.
"The bodies have been handed over to their families after autopsies. The vehicles involved in the accident have been impounded," he added.
Meanwhile, three other people were killed in a head-on collision between a Dhaka-bound Anirban Paribahan bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw near Daulatpur bus stand area on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in the same upazila.
"A passenger named Dolly Akhtar, 30, died on the spot. Two more people, Ziana Akhter, 11, and Jahanara Begum, 60, succumbed to their injuries after they were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital," Eliotganj highway police Officer-in-Charge (OC) Dewan Kaushik said.
"The auto-rickshaw has been seized. Dolly's body was recovered and taken to the police station," the OC added.
