3 killed in road accidents

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UNB, Dhaka :
At least three people, including a minor, were killed and 15 others injured in separate road accidents in Noakhali’s Begumganj Upazila and Kushtia’s Mirpur Upazila.
In Kushtia, a third-grader was crushed under the wheels of a human hauler while he was going to school at Charpara area. Police identified the victim as Hridoy, a student of Kusabaria-Charpara
Government Primary School. Witnesses said he was riding a bicycle to school when a human hauler hit him, killing him on the spot.
Amla Police camp Sub-Inspector Abdur Rahman said they had seized the human hauler but its driver fled.
In Noakhali, two people were killed and 15 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch on Chowmuhoni-Feni road at Jamidarhat Boropul area on Wednesday night.
The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.
Firoz Alam Molla, Officer-in-Charge of Begumganj Police Station, said the accident took place around 10pm when a Feni-bound bus of ‘Sugandha Paribahan’ from Noakhali fell into a ditch after one of its wheels got punctured. Two people were killed on the spot. The injured were taken to a local hospital.
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