At least nine people including three of a family were killed and 12 others injured in separate road crashes in Dinajpur, Munshiganj and Natore districts on Thursday.
In Munshiganj, four people were killed when a bus hit a parked truck on Bangabandhu Expressway at Shologhar in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj district in the morning.
The accident occurred around 8:45 am when the bus hit the stationary truck, leaving two dead on the spot and injured two others, said Molla Zakir Hossain, in-charge of Highway Police.
The injured were taken to a local hospital where the doctors declared them dead.
In Dinajpur, three members of a family including two children were killed and two others injured when a bus hit a three-wheeler carrying four people while overtaking a bus at Uchitpur in Chirirbandar upazila of the district on Thursday.
The deceased were identified as Uttam, 35, son of Shankar, Uttam’s wife Pallabi, 32 and their nine –year-old son Arnab of Parbatipur upazila and Mahanta, 8, son of Palash Mahanta of Mirzapur in Nawabganj upazila.
Asaduzzaman Asad, officer-in-charge of Chirirbandar Police Station, said the accident occurred around 11 am when the bus rammed into the three-wheeler while overtaking a bus, leaving two children dead on the spot and four others injured.
The family met the tragic accident while going to Sikdarhat to visit a herbal medicine practitioner (Kabiraj) in Sadar upazila.
Vehicular movement on Dinajpur-Gobindaganj regional highway remained suspended for two hours following the accident.
In Natore, Imon Hossain, 19, a student of Imon Sadhonpur Pangu Niketon College, was killed when a motorbike carrying him plunged into a roadside ditch after hitting an electric pole at Jagadishpur are in Naldanga upazila around 12 am.
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