The number of road accidents saw a marked rise in the last two years due to a growing number of motorcycles, says a new survey of Nirapad Sarak Chai (Nischa).

Four motorcyclists, including a father and his son and a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader, were killed in separate road accidents in Kishoreganj and Chattogram yesterday.

The month of August this year has seen 314 road accidents across Bangladesh which killed 357 people including 50 women and 60 children, says a survey report.

Reckless driving claimed five more lives yesterday amid the nationwide student protest for road safety.

Transport owners acknowledge deaths of two college students as murder and demand highest punishment for those responsible for it.

At least six people are killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a private car in Moulvibazar Sadar upazila, police say.

At least 2,471 people are killed on roads this year, an independent body says blaming unruly transport sector by large for the rally of the dead.

Fifty-two people were killed, including 18 in one crash in Gaibandha, on the country's roads yesterday.

At least 35 people are killed and 82 others injured in road accidents in eight districts. Among the victims, 16 are killed in Gaibandha, six in Rangpur, two each in Natore, Gopalganj, Sirajganj, Faridpur, Laxmipur districts and one in Savar of Dhaka district.

At least four people are killed and 10 others injured in separate road accidents in Sirajganj and Naogaon districts.

At least 10 people are killed and 59 others injured in separate road accidents in four districts.

At least seven people are killed and 24 others injured in separate road accidents in Rangpur, Gaibandha and Comilla.

Ten people were killed and at least 11 others injured in road accidents in the capital and Mymensingh yesterday.

Three Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders are killed and a party activist is injured when a motorcycle carrying the four lost control and hit a truck in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria yesetdray.

A woman and her two-year-old daughter are killed and three injured as a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Feni Sadar upazila.

A man is killed and eight people are injured following a head-on collision between two buses at Paltan intersection in Dhaka.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader visits Hridoy, whose right hand was severed in a bus-truck collision last week in Gopalganj, at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

At least four people are killed and two others injured when a train hit a covered van at a manned level crossing near Feni Railway Station.

Two motorcyclists are killed when their motorbike skids off the road while approaching Mayor Mohammad Hanif flyover at Dholaipar point in the old part of Dhaka.

24 examinees of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) were killed in road accidents on their way to exam centers or other places in last six months, says a passengers' welfare platform.