Staff Reporter :
At least 20 people were killed and more than 35 persons injured in road accidents in different parts of the country in the last two days.
According to information received in Dhaka, the accidents took place in Khagrachhari, Dhamrai, Ullapara, Shahzadpur, Gopalganj Sadar, Patia and some other places.
In Khagrachhari, three persons, including a mother and her baby-girl, were killed on the spot and 15 others received serious injuries when a passenger bus turned turtle at Kalapani under Guimara on Chittagong-Khagrachhari highway on Wednesday.
The victims were identified as Ripon Begum, 22, Zannatul Ferdous, 4, from Matiranga and Tariqul Islam, 24 from Guimara.
Police said a Chittagong to Khagrachhari-bound passenger bus turned turtle at Kalapani of Guimara when it tried to give space to a vehicle that was coming from the opposite direction.
Hearing the news of accident, local people rushed to the spot and rescued the passengers, including 15 injured persons, conducting an operation.
Later, the army, police and others joined the operation.
Police seized the bus, but the driver and its helper managed to escape the scene.
In another accident, three motorcycle riders were crushed under the wheels of a running bus at Shahzadpur in Sirajganj district on Wednesday.
The dead were identified as Anowar Hossain and Shariful Islam. The victims, both aged between 28 and 30 years, were going riding a motorbike from Ullapara to Shahzadpur.
But they met tragic end of their lives when the Dhaka bound Pabna Express bus coming from opposite direction hit the motorcycle head-to-head which ignited an explosion in the petrol tank of the motorbike.
Police seized the killer bus but they failed to nab the driver. The bodies were handed over to the family members of the victims. Besides, another one was killed in a separate road accident when a tyre of an auto-rickshaw blasted at Nabogram in Shahzadpur on Bogra-Nagarbari highway.
In Dhamrai, two persons were killed and three other injured when an ambulance carrying dead body collided violently with a roadside tree at Balikha on Dhaka-Aricha highway.
Police said the dead were identified as Shafiqul Islam, 28, and Rahim Bhuiyan, 35. The injured were admitted to near hospitals.
In Gopalganj, one person named Dilip Kumar Sarkar, 50, was killed and 10 others received injuries when a pickup van carrying 30/35 day labourers fell in a ditch after its driver lost control of the steering wheel on Tuesday.
In Patia of Chittagong, three passengers of a CNG-run three wheeler died on the spot after the vehicle fell into a ditch at Sikalbaha. The passengers met the tragic end of life being electrocuted in the water.
The victims were Abdul Mannan 24, Mohammad Hossain 20, and Nur Hossain, 28.
In Rajshahi, a garment worker named Shariat Ullah, 35, was killed being run over by a passenger bus at Bhadra on Wednesday.
Another restaurant businessman Mukul Hossain, 38, was killed when he was crushed under the wheels of a running bus at Mohanpur upazila in Rajshahi.
In another accident, a motor-cycle rider was killed and another one received injuries being hit by a loaded truck at Uttar Chyandipur under Sundarganj upazila in Gaibandha district on Wednesday. The dead was identified as Raza Mia.
