News Desk :
At least six people were killed in Rajbari and Narsingdi road accidents separately on Thursday.
In Rajbari: Three people were killed on Thursday as a truck collided with an autorickshaw at Kalyanpur in Rajbari.
The deceased were identified as autorickshaw driver Sujon,35, of Goalanda upazila, passengers Momin Pramanik,24, of sadar upazila, and Saiful Sheikh,20, of Modhukhali upazila in Faridpur, reports UNB.
The collision occurred around 4:30 pm on Rajbari-Faridpur regional highway in Alipur union in the district, leaving the driver and the two passengers of the autorcikshaw injured, said Delwar Hossain, officer-in-Charge of Ahladipur police station.
The injured were rushed to Faridpur Medical College Hospital where they died, said the OC.
The truck was seized but its driver and his assistant managed to flee.
Legal action will be taken in this regard, said the OC.
In Narsingdi: Three people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Narsingdi on Thursday morning.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
The accident occurred around 4am when the Dhaka-bound ‘Unique Paribahan’ bus crashed into the Sylhet-bound microbus on the high-speed corridor in Marjal Tarabag of the district’s Raipura upazila, police said.
“The crash left the microbus driver and two other occupants of the vehicle dead on the spot,” said Abdul Khalek, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Bhairab Highway Police Station.
On information, cops rushed to the spot and sent them to the local hospital morgue for post-mortem. “A probe has been ordered into the accident,” the OC said.
