6 killed in road crashes
Six people were killed and 15 others injured in separate road accidents in Sherpur and Habiganj yesterday.
UNB from Sherpur reports, four people died as a bus hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw from the opposite direction on Sherpur-Jhenaigati highway in Jhenaigati upazila yesterday.
Two of the deceased were Abdul Kadir, 50, of Kalinagar village in the upazila; and Hijul Islam, 30, son of Tuta Miah of Bajidkhila in Sherpur sadar upazila.
Belyet Hossain Tarafder, officer-in-charge of Jhenaigati Police Station, said the Jhenaigati-bound empty bus from Dhaka rammed the auto-rickshaw at about 9:00am.
Our staff correspondent from Sylhet reports, two people were killed and 15 others injured as a passenger bus plunged into a ditch beside Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Manikpur in Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj yesterday early morning.
The deceased were Taus Mia, 50, of village Shaldigha in Madhabpur upazila; and Russel Mia, 30, of village Fandauk of Nasirnagar upazila in Brahmanbaria district.
The injured were taken to Habiganj Sadar Hospital.
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