5 killed in separate road crashes

Some five people were killed in separate road crashes in Barishal and Sirajganj. Three of them were killed in Barishal and two other died in Sirajganj, reports UNB.

Police said three people, including an expatriate, were killed as a motorbike carrying them crashed into a roadside three at Kajirhat in Muladi upazila of Barishal district on Sunday.

The deceased are - Idirs Hawlader, 60, of Boriya Kazirchar area, Harun Noli, 45 and Rajib Noli, an Oman expatriate and son of Monself Ali of the same area.

Confirming the matter Muladi police station’s officer-in- charge (OC) M Maksudur Rahman said when the three people were going to Mirganj from Boriya Kazirchat their motorbike overturned after hitting a tree, leaving them dead on the spot.

The bodies will be sent to a hospital morgue, he adde

In the meantime, two people were killed when a tractor rammed a CNG run auto-rickshaw at Aliganj on Dhaka-Sunamganj highway in Jagannathpur upazila of Sunamganj district on Sunday.

The deceased were identified as auto-rickshaw driver Shuvo, 25, of Brahmanbaria district and Amir Hossain, 55, of Jagannathpur upazila.

The accident occurred around 8.00am when the tractor hit the Raniganj-bound auto-rickshaw, leaving two people dead on the spot, said sub-inspector Obayed Ullah of Jagannathpur police station.

On information, police recovered the bodies and sent those to a local hospital morgue.