News Desk :
At least four people were killed in Thakurgaon and Dinajpur road crashes on Sunday.
In Thakurgaon, a 45-year old man and his teenage son were killed in a road crash on Pirganj-Thakurgaon road in Pirganj upazila of Thakurgaon district Saturday. .
The deceased were identified as Karimul Islam, of Bhakura Bagmara village under Sadar union of Pirganj upazila and his son Arman Hossain, 14.
Witnesses said whn Karimul and Arman were coming to Pirganj from Thakurgaon on a motorcycle it collided with a
Thakurgaon-bound pickup van at Chilachapa around 7:45 pm, leaving Karimul dead on the spot, reports UNB.
Seriously injured Arman Hossain was taken to Pirganj Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Pirganj Police Station Officer-in-Charge Jahangir Alam said the pickup van driver was arrested and the vehicle seized.
In Dinajpur, two people were killed and two others injured in a road accident on Dinajpur-Phulbari road at Doulatpur in Chirirbandar upazila of Dianjpur district on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Delwar Hossain, 35, son of Aftab Uddin Molla and Ishak, 60 of the upazila.
The accident occurred around 12 pm when a Dhaka-bound bus of ‘Shayamoli Paribahan’ hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw, leaving one dead on the spot and three others injured, said sub-inspector of Ambari Police camp Mintu, reports UNB.
The injured were taken to Dinajpur M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital where doctors declared one of them dead. Police seized the bus.