Six people were killed in road accidents in three districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

Two persons were killed in an air conditioner explosion at a readymade garment factory in Gazipur Sadar upazila today (July 24, 2022).

Four unidentified passengers of a bus were dead and at least 20 others were injured when a train hit the bus on a railway level crossing at Sreepur upazila of Gazipur this morning (July 24, 2022).

Three people died after a private car carrying them fell into a roadside ditch in Debidwar upazila of Cumilla this morning (July 24, 2022).

Two people died and 15 were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a bus in Tangail’s Kalihati upazila early today (July 24, 2022).

The onion-laden truck that mowed down three people in Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila on July 16 -- including an eight-month pregnant woman who gave birth on the spot -- got its fitness certificate while impounded at a police station two days later.

Three people were killed in road accidents in three districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

A schoolgirl was killed as a bus ran over her in Gazipur’s Tongi this morning (July 23, 2022).

At least 20 people were injured after a bus overturned in Bishwa Road area in the capital’s Jatrabari yesterday, UNB reports.

A 25-year-old tourist drowned and two others were injured while bathing in the Nikli haor in Kishoreganj yesterday morning. 

A 12-year-old girl drowned in the Chengi River at the Shutokarma area in Panchhari upazila of Khagrachhari today (July 22, 2022).

A youth drowned to death while bathing in Nikli haor in Kishoreganj this morning (July 22, 2022).

At least five workers were dead and another injured as a train hit a three-wheeler at Kagdi area under Kashiani upazila of Goplaganj last night (July 21, 2022).

A primary schoolteacher was killed in a road accident on his way to school in Dinajpur Sadar upazila yesterday.

At least six people were killed in a bus-microbus collision in Barishal and five people died after a train rammed a three-wheeler in Gopalganj yesterday.   

A head-on collision between a bus and a microbus on the Dhaka-Barishal highway left five people dead and 12 others injured today (July 21, 2022).

A former Eden Mahila College student died after she fell from a battery-run rickshaw in old Dhaka’s Bangshal area early this morning.

A toddler, her mother, and aunt were among six people who died after a bus rammed into an auto-rickshaw in Bakerganj, Barishal, yesterday afternoon.

A Mymensingh court today (July 20, 2022) placed the driver of the truck, which hit and killed three persons including a pregnant woman in Mymensingh's Trishal on July 16, on two day remand.

The country has witnessed the highest number of road crashes and deaths during the Eid-ul-Azha rush this year since 2016, exposing the poor state of road safety.