Freedom fighter among 6 killed in road crashes

Dhaka, April 25: Six people including a freedom fighter were killed and 50 others injured in road accidents in Nilphamari and Panchagarh yesterday and Saturday.

UNB from Panchagarh reports: A freedom fighter was killed after a tractor hit his motorcycle at Karatoa bridge in Debiganj upazila Saturday evening.

Naba Kumar Roy, 65 of Debiduba union of the upazila, died on the spot. He was Debiduba union unit commander of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Shangshad.

Another man was killed after being hit by a bus at Magurmari intersection in Tentulia upazila, Panchagarh on Saturday afternoon.

Tariqul Islam, 35, a rock trader and son of Abdul Kader of Debnagar village of the upazila, died on the spot.

Our Nilphamari correspondent says: Four people were killed and 50 others wounded as a BRTC bus fell into a ditch at Golahat in Syedpur of the district yesterday.

Dead are Amena Begum, 38, her daughter Rupali Begum Rupa, 22, and an unidentified man aged about 60 of Thakurgaon and Noman, 25, of Birganj, Dinjapur.

Thirty-five of the injured were admitted to Syedpur hospital, and 16 of them were shifted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital in critical condition. Others received first aid at different private clinics.

Source: The Daily Star