Road crashes kill 4 in Dhaka, Ctg

Four people were killed in three separate road accidents in Dhaka and Chittagong this morning.

The deceased are: Abdur Rashid, 45, and Md Ishan, 12, of Chittagong; Fakhrul, 40, of Dhaka and another unidentified man.

In Dhaka, Fakhrul was hit by a private car when he was walking on a road in Mirpur-6 around 7:00am.

He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where docotrs declared him dead, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Babul Mia of the hospital told The Daily Star.

In Chittagong’s Sitakunda upazila, a bus collided with a covered van on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Baraulia, leaving helper of the bus, Abdur Rashid, dead on spot around 11:30am.

Four people were also injured in the accident, our correspondent reports quoting Sub-Inspector Shamsul Alam of Baraulia Highway Police Station.

The injured were taken to Chittagong medical College Hospital (CMCH).

Meanwhile in the district’s Mirsharai upazila, a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw around 11:45am, killing Md Ishan and another unknown man on the spot, said Dipun Debnath, sub-inspector of Joraganj Police Station.