A 68-year-old lawyer and two people—a father and his son—were killed in separate road accidents in Chittagong and Bogra, reports UNB.
In Bogra, the lawyer died after a speeding truck rammed his bike outside a petrol pump in Kahalu upazila on Saturday morning.
The deceased was identified as Mahbubar Rahman Faruq, a senior advocate at Bagura court and a former vice president of Bogra Bar Association.
Rubel Rana, warehouse inspector of Kahalu fire station, said that the accident occurred around 8am as soon as Mahbubar hit the main road after refuelling at Rahima filling station on Bogra Santahar Road.
"The speeding truck hit his bike from behind, leaving him dead on the spot in the impact," the officer said.
The body was recovered from the spot and handed over to the family by police.
The driver and helper managed to escape, leaving the truck behind. "The vehicle has been seized and efforts are on to track down the errant driver," a police officer said.
In Chittagong, a 38-year-old man and his five-year-old son were killed while three others sustained injuries when a lorry hit a cycle rickshaw carrying them to a shopping plaza in the port city on Saturday.
The deceased were identified as Abu Saleh and his son Abdul Momin of the Bandartila area of Chattogram's Patenga. The three injured -- Saleh's wife, their second child and the rickshaw puller, have been hospitalised.
Nurul Huda, officer-in-charge of Chattogram Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) police station, said the accident occurred around 11am near Bandartila Shah Plaza Market.
"The lorry hit the rickshaw carrying Saleh, his wife and their two children to Bay Shopping Centre inside CEPZ from the Patenga Steel Mill area, leaving the two dead on the spot," he said.
Following the accident, locals vandalised the lorry, triggering a major traffic snarl in the area. The locals dispersed after being pacified by cops.
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