News Desk :
At least seven people were killed in B’baria, Khagrachhari, Cox’s Bazar respectively on Thursday.
In B’baria : Three youths were killed as the motorbike carrying them collided with a pickup van on Wednesday night on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bijoynagar upazila in Brahmanbaria district.
The deceased were Antar Mia,19, Rabiul Islam,29, and Ananada Mia,20, residents of Birpasha village in the upazila.
The Habiganj-bound motorcycle was hit by the pickup van coming from the opposite direction in the evening, leaving Antar and Rabiul dead on the spot, said police, reports UNB.
Ananda Mia died on the way to Dhaka, said Md Shahjalal Alam, Officer-in-Charge of Khatihata Highway police station.
He said the pickup van was seized but the driver managed to flee.
The bodies were sent for autopsy, said the OC.
In Khagrachhari : Two people were killed and two other people were injured in a road crash at Budong Para of Guimara upazila in Khagrachhari on Wednesday morning.
The deceased were identified as trader Jibon Majumder, 55, and his son Ratif Majumder, 14, of the upazila.
Police said the accident occurred when a cement-laden truck they were in lost control and crashed into a roadside hill on Khagrachhari-Chattogram road in Budong Para, leaving both father and son dead on the spot.
Meanwhile, driver Mehedi Prakash Lavlu and another injured were sent to Matiranga Upazila Health Complex, said Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Guimara Police Station.
The bodies were sent to Khagrachhari Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy, the OC added.
In Cox’s Bazar : Two persons were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between a microbus and an auto-rickshaw on Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Marine Drive in the district early Thursday.
However, the identities of the victims are yet to be established, police said.
The accident occurred when the microbus hit the CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Marine Drive this morning. The crash left two passengers of the auto-rickshaw dead on the spot.
The injured occupants of the auto-rickshaw were rushed to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital, said Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Model Police Station. “Their condition is said to be critical.”
Both the vehicles have been seized, the OC added.
