Road crashes kill 9 in Bangladesh

At least nine people have been killed and 16 others injured in separate road accidents in Tangail, Bogura and Dhaka.

In Tangail, at least four people were killed and 15 others injured when a commuter bus crashed into a truck parked along the busy Dhaka-Tangail highway in Mirzapur upazila early Saturday.

The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.

Molla Tutul, officer-in-charge of Gorai Highway Police Station, said the accident occurred around 4.30am when the ‘Binimoy Paribahan’ bus hit the stationary sand-laden truck from behind in the Dulla Mansur area.

In Bogura, four people, including a father-son duo, were killed and another one injured when a truck hit a private car at Kalia Pukur in Kahalu upazila this morning.

The deceased were identified as Tanser Ali, 60, his son Tagar Ali, 35, Abdur Rahman, 35, son of Mafiz Uddin, and Sumon, 30, a private car driver.

Ambar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kahalu Police Station, said the accident occurred around 8am when the Naogaon-bound truck from Bogura hit the private car at Dargahat, leaving three people dead on the spot and two others injured.

In the capital, a young man, identified as Ibrahim Biswas, 24, who was going to Karwan Bazar for buying vegetables, died after a bus hit his rickshaw at Panthapath intersection early this morning.

The accident occurred around 3.45am, said Md Shahabuddin, sub-inspector at Shahbagh Police Station.