Staff Reporter :At least 15 people, including a woman and her twins, were killed in separate road and railway accidents in different parts of the country during three-day Eid holidays.In Lalmonirhat, three persons including a handicapped woman were killed in three separate road accidents on Monday, on the day of Eid-ul Azha.The victims were identified as Helal Hossain, Md Nahid and Rozina Begum. Of them Helal Hossain died on the spot being hit by a votvoti at Jurabandha in Sadar upzila. Md Nahid was killed being run over by a passenger pickup at Bholar Danga of Kaliganj upazila.Besides, the handicapped Rozina Begum was killed when a running train hit her at Burimari area near Patgram. In a fatal road accident, six people were killed on the spot and three others injured at Bagherkanda Bypass in Sadar upazila on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Nasiruddin, 40, Pervin Akhter, 22, and Sarmin Akhter, 19. Officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station Fazlul Karim said the accident took place around 12 pm when aMymensingh-bound bus from Muktagachha collided head-on with a human hauler coming from the opposite direction, leaving one dead on the spot and eight people injured. The injured were rushed to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where doctors declared four more dead. Another injured succumbed to his injuries later.In protest, locals took to the streets immediately after the accident and continued their demonstration till afternoon.In Brahmanbaria, a road accident at Ujanchar in Sadar upazila killed a mother and her twin children. The victims were identified as Rubina Akhter, 25, and her four-year-old twin sons – Sourav and Nirab. Delwar Hossain, an SI of Sadar Police Station, said the accident took place when the microbus the victims were travelling veered off the road and tumbled into a ditch. He said the victims on the way to their village home in Nabinagar upazila from capital Dhaka to celebrate Eid. In Gaibandha, an unknown woman was killed and 17 people were injured in a road crash at Bokchar in Gobindaganj upazila on Dhaka-Rangpur highway. Two people were killed in separate accidents on road and railway in Rajshahi district. An unidentified middle-aged woman was crushed to death under the wheels of a train in Darigharbona rail crossing in Rajshahi city. Witnesses said the woman was knocked down and crushed to death by a moving Khulna-bound train from Chapainawabganj while she was crossing the track at Darigharbona-level crossing.
