Eight people were killed and 16 others injured in separate road accidents at Dumuria in Khulna and at Pirganj and Pirgacha in Rangpur on Saturday.
The New Age Khulna correspondent reports, three persons were
killed and eight were injured as a passenger bus and an auto-van collided head-on on the Khulna-Satkhira Highway near Atharomile bazar at Dumuria in Khulna Saturday noon.
Two of the dead were identified as Moyej Uddin, 75, a resident of village Agorhati in Keshobpur upazila of Jessore and Veem Paul, 37, a resident of village Chuknagar at Dumuria in Khulna.
The identity of a dead woman, aged about 55, could not be ascertained immediately.
Of the injured, Majeda Begum, 60, Ronjita, 32, and her two daughters Nasrin, 10, and Parveen, 3, were given treatment at local hospitals.
Dumuria police officer-in-charge Md Abdul Jalil said they seized the bus.
Our Rangpur correspondent reports, five people were killed and eight injured in two separate road accidents at Pirganj and Pirgacha upazilas in Rangpur on Saturday.
According to the police, a Rangpur-bound potato-laden truck from Bogra skidded off the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway and fell into a roadside canal at Rasulpur at Pirganj leaving four people killed on the spot.
Of the deceased, three were identified as Rabiul Islam, 35, resident of Taraganj upazila of Rangpur, Kalu, 48, a resident of Kishoregonj upazila of Nilphamari and Asgar Ali, 38, a resident of Chittagong.
The rest one could not be identified.
Of the injured, three were admitted to Rang-pur Medical College Hospital in a critically condition.
The police sent the bodies to RMCH morgue for post-mortem.
A case was filed.
Besides, a minibus ran over bicyclist Meher Ali Chowkidar, 60, and he died on the spot on Rangpur-Pirgachha Road at Beltali in Pirgachha of the district.
Source: New Age
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