Chittagong Bureau :Six persons were killed and 23 others injured in separate road accident’s in Chittagong and Madaripur on Tuesday. Three persons, including a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver, were killed and three others injured in a road accident in SarkarHat area under Anowara upazila of the district yesterday.Two of the victims were identified as CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver Gias Uddin, 35, and its passenger Shafiullah, 32, while the identity of the other could not be known immediately. The injured were auto-rickshaw passengers Selim, 25, Farukh, 25, and Ayesha Begum, 40. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Anwara thana Abdul Latif said the accident occurred when a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a passenger bus in the area, injuring the auto-rickshaw driver and its five passengers around 9.30 am.The wounded were rushed to the Upazila Health Complex from where they were later shifted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH), the OC added. Another report adds: One person was killed and 20 others were injured in a head-on collision between two passenger buses at Mithapukur area under Mirsari upazila of the district at 11 am yesterday. The identity of the deceased passenger could not be known immediately.UNB, adds from Madaripur: Two motorcyclists were killed as a bus crashed into their vehicle in Kalibari area of Rajoir upazila on Tuesday morning.The deceased were identified as Mizan, 35, a resident of Kotalipara upazila of Gopalganj district, and Shamim, 38, haling from Bogra. Police said the accident took place when a bus-bound for Kotalipara hit the motorcycle Mizan and Shamim were riding in the area around 8:30am, leaving the duo dead on the spot.On information, police recovered the bodies and sent those to Madaripur Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
