A female student of Jagannath University and four others were killed in separate road accidents in Gopalganj, Lalmonirhat, Jessore and Jenaidah on Wednesday and Thursday.
The New Age correspondent in Gopalganj said a student of Jagannath University was killed and 20 others were injured in a road accident near Gohala Bridge in the district headquarters early Thursday.
The deceased Mishari Akhter Mishu, 21, was daughter of Shafiul Alam of Digharkul at Rampal in Bagerhat.
Gopinathpur police subinspector Shariful Islam said that a bus headed for Dhaka from Pirojpur had skidded off into a roadside ditch as it was overtaking another bus about 11:00pm Wednesday.
Mishari was a second-year student of English at Jagannath University. The police seized both the buses but the drivers managed to get away.
The correspondent in Lalmonirhat said a man was killed in a road accident at Milan Bazar of Hatibandha on the Lalmonirhat–Burimari Road about 10:00pm. The victim was Laizu Islam, 26, of Hatibandha.
The police said that a bus headed for Patgram had knocked down the man when he was crossing the road about 10:00pm. The man died on the spot.
The correspondent in Jhenaidah said an electrician was killed in a road accident at Kaliganj in the district on Thursday afternoon. The victim was Umar Farooque, 42, of Devinagar at Dattapara in Lakshmipur.
The police said that a pick-up van had hit the motorcycle Umar was riding about 1:00pm. Umar died on the spot.
The police failed to seize the vehicle or arrest the driver.
The correspondent in Jessore said that two were killed in a road accident at Palbari in Jessore about 9:30pm on Wednesday.
The accident took place as a truck ran over an auto-rickshaw
The victims were the auto-rickhsaw driver Jani, 24, of Pagladah in the Jessore district headquarters, and Abdus Salam, 50, of Arabpur in the Jessore town.
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