15 killed in road, train accidents in two days
At least 15 people were killed in the road and train accidents in Gopalganj, Chattogram, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Feni, Kurigram and Sylhet districts and the capital on Monday night and Tuesday, reports news agency UNB.
According to reports reaching the UNB newsroom, three students were killed and another was injured after a train hit their bike at an unmanned level-crossing in Kashiani upazila in Gopalganj on Tuesday.
The deceased were identified as Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinee Md Yasin Sharif, 16, son of Farid Sharif, and 10th graders Md Rayhan Ruhin, 15, son of Ashraf Ali Mia, and Al Amin Khandakar, 15. They were from different villages of the upazila.
Azizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Kashiani police station, said the train smashed the motorcycle at the crossing at Biswanathpur around 2:30pm when the four students were trying to cross the rail tracks, leaving three of them dead on the spot and the other injured.
Severely injured Sohan Talukder, 15, son of Md Ahad Talukder, was admitted to Kashiani Health Complex.
The bodies were sent to the same hospital, he said.
Sub-inspector Ratan Boiragi said four friends went on sightseeing by the motorbike after enjoying the annual sports competition at Joynagar High School when the accident took place.
In Chattogram, a bus overturned and plunged into a roadside ditch in Pahartali area of Raozan upazila on Tuesday morning, killing Jahanara Begum, 55, and Imam Hossain, 45, and injuring 15 people.
Kefayat Ullah, officer-in-charge (OC) of Raozan police station, said bus flipped over and fell into the ditch around 11:00am, leaving the duo dead on the spot.
In Moulvibazar, Muzahidur Rahman, 34, son of Abdur Rahman, and Al Amin, 25, son of Harun Mia of Sadar upazila, were killed and four other people injured in a collision between a pick-up van and an auto-rickshaw at Baurbhag in sadar upazila on Tuesday.
The Sherpur-bound pick-up van collided with the auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction around 7:30am, said assistant sub-inspector Ibrahim.
In Habiganj, an unknown vehicle hit an auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Doulatpur in Bahubal upazila early Tuesday, killing Abdur Rakib, 35, and Akter Mia, 45, dead.
OC of Bahubal police station Quamruzzaman said the vehicle hit the auto-rickshaw around 3:30am while heading towards a CNG filling station, leaving the auto-rickshaw driver and a passenger dead on the spot.
In Feni, three people were killed in separate road accidents on Monday night and Tuesday.
Belal Hossain, 22, and an unidentified man were killed in a collision between a bus and an auto-rickshaw on Tuesday morning in Bondua Hazi Store area of Parshuram upazila.
Meanwhile, Topura Akhter, 32, office assistant of Parshuram upazila nirbahi office, was killed when a truck hit a motorcycle she was riding with her son in front of Munshirhat fire service station around 11:00pm on Monday.
In Kurigram, Hasan Ali, 18, a trolley helper, was seriously injured after his sand-laden trolley fell into a ditch by the Roumari-Dhaka road in Jadurchar Girls’ High School area in Roumari upazila around 1pm on Tuesday.
Hasan was taken to Roumari Health Complex and was later shifted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead, said Md Abu Delwar Hasan Enam, officer-in-charge of Roumari police station.
In Sylhet, Dabirul Islam, 35, of Dinajpur, was killed after the truck he was driving overturned and fell into the Kalijuri Dhanban canal in Kanaighat upazila on Tuesday.
Sub-inspector of Kanaighat police station Abu Kawser said the truck overturned and fell into the canal around 8:00am, leaving the driver dead on the spot.
Meanwhile, motorcyclist Omar Faruque Tuhin was seriously injured as a bus ran him over in Sayedabad area of the capital on Tuesday.
SI Ahmed Nowajis of Jatrabari police station said the accident took place around 11:45am while Tuhin was going to his office.
Tuhin was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where doctor declared him dead around 3:00pm, he said.