Road crashes claim four lives in Sirajganj, Chuadanga
Though the truck was seized, its driver and helper managed to flee, he said, adding that a case was filed in this connection
Four people were killed and another was injured in two separate road accidents in Sirajganj and Chuadanga districts respectively early Friday.
In Sirajganj, two people died and a man sustained injuries in a head-on collision between a truck and a microbus on Bogura-Nagarbari highway in Sirajganj's Ullapara upazila in the early morning.
The deceased were identified as microbus driver Mansurul Alam Babul, 40, a resident of Harinathpur village in Atghoria upazila of Pabna, and passenger Manik Chandra Shil, 42.
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Md Abdur Rauf, officer-in-charge of Hatikumrul highway police station, said that the accident happened at around 1am when the cement-laden truck collided head-on with the microbus in Nayangati Graveyard area, leaving the pair dead on the spot and another injured.
Later, the injured was sent to Ullapara Upazila Health Complex.
Though the truck was seized, its driver and helper managed to flee, he said, adding that a case was filed in this connection.
Meanwhile, two people were killed when a speeding bus crashed into a battery-run three-wheeler, locally known as pakhi van, in Chuadanga Sadar upazila around 5am.
The victims were van driver Abdur Razzak, 65, and rice trader Sarwar Hossain, 70, both hailed from of Kutubpur and Mahammadjoma villages respectively under Sadar upazila.
Locals said the accident occurred in an area by local Noymile Bazar on the Chuadanga-Jhenaidah highway when the speeding bus hit the van carrying the duo, leaving the two dead on the spot.
The bodies were sent to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy, said Khaledur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Chuadanga Sadar Police Station.
Legal action will be taken in this regard, he added.
