9 killed in road accidents

Our Staff Correspondent reports: Three people were killed in separate road accidents in the city and Savar early hours of yesterday, police said.

Md Kamruzzaman, 27, member of Ansar, was seriously injured when a vehicle hit him from behind at Satmashjid Road in the city at around 12:15am yesterday.

Locals rushed Kamruzzaman at Shaheed Suhrawardi Hospital where he died.

Md Farid, 23, an electric mechanic, was run over by a vehicle at around 12:10am near Joar Shahara police box under Khilkhet Police Station.

Meanwhile, an unidentified man was killed when a speedy vehicle crushed him under its wheels on Dhaka-Aricha highway Near Modhumati Model town early hours of yesterday.

Police, however, could not give details.

BSS from Feni adds: Two people were killed and four others injured in a road accident on Feni-Kajirhat road under Sonagaji upazila yesterday.

Police identified the victims as Azizul Haque, 35, and Abul Bashar, 42, a school teacher.

The accident took place when a passenger bus collided head-on with a tempo coming from opposite direction, police said.

Azizul Haque died on the spot while Bashar succumbed to his injuries at a local clinic.

Bdnews from Bhramhanbaria adds: One person was crushed under the wheels of a speedy bus yesterday on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Khariala bus stand in Bhramhanbaria.

The deceased was identified as Abdus Sattar of Panishwar village under Sarail upazilla.

Our Correspondent from Tangail reports: Three people were killed and four others seriously injured in two separate road accidents at Delduar and Sadar upazilas on Wednesday night and yesterday.

Of the dead, two were identified as Nayeb Ali, 45, and Saiful Islam, 35, of Delduar upazila. The identity of another victim could not be known immediately.

The first accident took place at around 10:30pm on Wednesday when a Delduar-bound passenger-laden tempo from Pakulla lost its control and fell into a ditch after head-on collission with a goods-laden hackney carriage drawn by horse from opposite direction at Lawhati Bazar area under Delduar upazila, leaving tempo passenger Nayeb Ali dead on the spot and seriously injured five others, including the tempo driver, police and witnesses said.

Local people rushed to the spot and sent the injured to Tangail General Hospital where tempo driver Saiful Islam succumbed to to his injuries at around 10:00am yesterday.

Meanwhile, a Dhaka-bound speedy bus from Tangail crushed an unidentified passer-by under its wheels when he was crossing the Dhaka-Tangail highway at Taratia in front of the BISIC industrial area under Sadar upazila, leaving him dead on the spot.

Police sent the body to Tangail General Hospital morgue for autopsy.