In the dense fog, two pile-ups and four accidents on and around Bangabandhu Bridge left six people dead and 50 others injured within the span of a few hours yesterday morning.

A total of 8,642 people have been killed and 21,855 injured in road crashes across country last year, a report of Bangladesh Passengers' Welfare Association has said today.

At least four people are killed as a truck rammed a private car in Sylhet city.

At least four people are killed and 20 others injured after a bus-truck collision on Dhaka-Pabna highway in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna.

Two people are killed and one injured when speeding a truck hit their motorcycle in Kushtia Sadar upazila.

Seven people are killed and eight others injured after a truck overturns in Bandarban’s Lama upazila. Four of them killed instantly crushed under the heavy construction materials that the truck was carrying. Police and district officials are en route to visit the spot.

At least seven passengers are killed and 30 injured in a four-vehicle pile-up after a head-on collision between two buses in Rajshahi city.

Journalist Abdullah Al Faruk is buried at Azimpur graveyard following three namaz-e-janazas.

A professor of Rajshahi University is killed when a pickup van of Sundarban Courier Service rammed his motorbike in Natore town.

Two vegetable traders are crushed under the wheels of a speeding truck after they were left, with their hands and legs tied, allegedly by robbers in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Workers of three garment factories block a road at Kamalapur in Dhaka and vandalise at least three buses while protesting the death of their colleague in a road accident.

Five people are killed and another is injured as a truck hits a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Comilla-Noakhali regional highway at Fatehpur in Laksam upazila of Comilla.

A college student is killed when a truck rammed his motorbike in Banani area of Dhaka.

A police official is killed after a bus hit him at Biman Bandar bus station on Airport Road in Dhaka.

Locals block Dhaka-Mawa highway for three hours after two people including a JSC examinee were crushed under the wheels of a bus in Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj this morning.

Separate road accidents in Habiganj and Moulvibazar districts leave six people killed and five others injured.

Nine people are killed and eight injured in separate road crashes in Dhaka, Rajshahi and Dinajpur districts in 12 hours till this morning.

Four people are killed as an unspecified vehicle rams a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Siddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that total 21,316 people died across Bangladesh in just a year – 2012 – while pedestrians account to 32 percent of the total casualty.

Four people are killed and three injured as a bus hit a human hauler on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur.