UNB, Dhaka :
Five people, including a police constable, were killed and 22 other people injured in two separate road accidents in Rajbari and Khulna districts early Thursday.
In Rajbari, three people, including a police constable, were killed and 15 others injured in a road accident on the Daulatdia-Khulna Highway in Sadar upazila of the district early in the morning.
Two of the deceased were identified as Constable Rubel Hossain of Kandebpur village in Meherpur district, and Harun Sheikh of Sonapur village in Mollahat upaziula of Bagerhat district while another could not be identified yet.
Officer-in-charge of Rajbari Highway Police Mohammad Hossain Sardar said a patrol team of police was helping some people to get on a bus on the highway in Nimtala area at around 1:30am.
The accident took place around 1:30am when a moving truck ran over the people and policemen from behind, leaving two passengers dead on the spot and 16 others, including five policemen, injured.
The injured were taken to Faridpur Medical College Hospital where doctors declared constable Rubel dead.
Police seized the bus but its driver managed to flee the scene.
In Khulna, two people, including a truck driver, were killed and seven others injured in a head-on collision between two trucks on the Khan Jahan Ali Bridge in the city early in the morning.
The deceased were identified as Kamrul, 38, driver of a truck and son of Wajed Sheikh of Chitalmari of Bagerhat district, and truck rider Rafiqul Islam, 36.
Police said, the Khulna-bound speeding truck from Bagerhat collided with a mini truck coming from the opposite direction on the bridge in Rupsha around 3.30am, leaving Kamal, driver of the mini truck, and its rider Rafiqul died on the spot and seven other riders of the two trucks injured. The injured were sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital.
