Reckless driving kills HSC examinee in Lalmonirhat

Reckless driving killed an HSC examinee on Kurigram-Rangpur road in Khedabagh area of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila yesterday.

Sujata Begum, 19, of Khedabagh village was killed when a bus hit her while she was crossing the road in the morning. A student of Barabari College, she was going to her examination centre.

In Chandpur Sadar, freedom fighter Momtaz Uddins Bhuia, 70, of Raipur Bazar area was killed when a CNG-run auto-rickshaw carrying him collided head-on with a three-wheeler on Chandpur-Raipur road in Bagdi on Saturday.

Two members of a family were also injured in the incident.

In Bogra, a couple was killed and seven others were injured when a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on on the Bogra-Dhaka highway in Jamunapara area of Sherpur upazila yesterday.

The deceased were Thandu Mia, 42, and his wife Anjila Begum, 35 of Kellaposhi village.

In Patuakhali, M Altaf Hossain, 60 of Sabujbagh area was killed when a truck hit his motorcycle in Bashak Bazar area on Saturday.

He was an engineer of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED).