Staff Reporter :
At least five people were killed in separate road crashes in Nilphamari and Bagerhat districts on Friday.
In Nilphamari, a bus rammed into a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Syedpur on Friday that left the auto driver and two passengers dead.
The deceased are: auto-rickshaw driver Mintoo Islam,35, and passengers Aftab Hossain,40, and Abdur Rahim,30.
Witnesses said, a passenger bus dashed an auto-rickshaw near WAPDA gate at about 6am, leaving driver Mintoo dead on the spot and two passengers injured.
Both the injured died at Syedpur 100-bed hospital.
Syedpur OC Shahjahan Pasha confirmed the matter.
Angered by the accident, locals blocked the Nilphamari-Syedpur road demanding the arrest of the bus driver and compensation for the dead.
The protesters lifted the blockade five hours after a meeting with Syedpur Upazila Administration and high police officials.
In Bagerhat, two people were killed and another injured when a bus collided with a microbus on Khulna-Mawa Highway at Noapara in Fakirhat Upazila on Friday.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Rabiul Islam, Officer-in-Charge of Katakhali Highway police, said the accident took place around 7:00am when the bus collided with the Mawa-bound microbus, leaving two people dead on the spot.
Police recovered the bodies and seized the bus, he added
At least five people were killed in separate road crashes in Nilphamari and Bagerhat districts on Friday.
In Nilphamari, a bus rammed into a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Syedpur on Friday that left the auto driver and two passengers dead.
The deceased are: auto-rickshaw driver Mintoo Islam,35, and passengers Aftab Hossain,40, and Abdur Rahim,30.
Witnesses said, a passenger bus dashed an auto-rickshaw near WAPDA gate at about 6am, leaving driver Mintoo dead on the spot and two passengers injured.
Both the injured died at Syedpur 100-bed hospital.
Syedpur OC Shahjahan Pasha confirmed the matter.
Angered by the accident, locals blocked the Nilphamari-Syedpur road demanding the arrest of the bus driver and compensation for the dead.
The protesters lifted the blockade five hours after a meeting with Syedpur Upazila Administration and high police officials.
In Bagerhat, two people were killed and another injured when a bus collided with a microbus on Khulna-Mawa Highway at Noapara in Fakirhat Upazila on Friday.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Rabiul Islam, Officer-in-Charge of Katakhali Highway police, said the accident took place around 7:00am when the bus collided with the Mawa-bound microbus, leaving two people dead on the spot.
Police recovered the bodies and seized the bus, he added
