Seventeen people were killed and 80 others injured in separate road accidents in Tangail, Sylhet and Jhalakathi on Saturday.
In Tangail, four people were killed and 30 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Madhupur upazila in Tangail in the evening.
The accident took place at Ashura area on Tangail-Mymensingh road around 6:30pm when a Mymensingh-bound bus collided head-on with a truck coming from the opposite direction, leaving four people dead on the spot and 25 other injured, reports our correspondent quoting police sources.
One of the deceased was identified as Liton Miah, 30, of Poddarbari village in Madhupur upazila. Identities of the others are yet to be known.
On information, police and Fire Service and Civil Defense personnel rescued the injured people and rushed them to Madhupur Upazila Health Complex.
Several critically injured people were later sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.
Earlier, a bus collided head-on with a truck on Dhaka-Tangail highway at Ichail in Mirzapur upazila around 7:15am, leaving five people including two women and two children dead and 30 injured.
One of the deceased was identified as Salma Akter, 25. All the dead and injured victims were passengers of the bus.
One of the injured died on the way to the hospital while two others succumbed after they were admitted to the hospital.
Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Tangail highway remained suspended following the road crash, creating heavy jam. The transport movement became normal after the law enforcers removed the damaged bus and truck from the highway.
Mahbub Hossan, deputy commissioner in Tangail, visited the spot and announced to give Tk 20,000 to each of the deceased’ family and Tk 10,000 to each of the injured person.
In another incident, two motorcycle riders were killed as a private car rammed into a motorbike carrying the duo in Analiabari area of Kalihati upazila around 9:30am.
One of the deceased was identified as Mohammad Touhid, son of Belal Hossain of Bamondanga village in Gaibandha Sadar upazila.
They were heading towards Dhaka after enjoying their holidays back in their ancestral home in Gaibandha.
Doctors declared Touhid dead after he was whisked off to Tangail Medical College and Hospital.
Police seized the private car but its driver managed to flee.
In Sylhet, four people, including two children, were killed and 20 injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Kayasthagram on the Sylhet-Jakiganj road in Golapganj upazila around 10:30am.
The children are identified as Shuva, 10, and her sister Tanima, 6, daughters of Koyes Miah of Goashpur village in Golapganj, reports our Sylhet correspondent.
A Sylhet-bound bus, coming from Jakiganj, fell into a roadside ditch, leaving four passengers dead and 15 others injured, Mir Abdul Naser, Officer-in-charge (investigation) of Golapganj Police Station told The New Nation.
The injured were taken to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital where four people succumbed to their injuries, the OC added.
In Jhalakathi, two people were killed while one was severely injured in a road accident on Barisal-Khulna highway at Pingri of Rajapur upazila this afternoon, our correspondent reports quoting police sources
The incident took place when a Barisal-bound motorcycle with three passengers was hit by a bus coming from the opposite direction.
