Dhaka, Bangladesh Global: Seven people were killed and four other were injured in separate road accidents in Dhaka, Dinajpur, Gazipur and Manilganj on Friday morning.
In Dhaka: A woman was killed after an unidentified vehicle hit her while she was crossing the road in Padma Bridge Railing Project Ghonti Ghar area under Gendaria police station around 3am on Friday.
Md Bachhu Mia, In-Charge of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police outpost, said she succumbed to her injuries while undergoing treatment at the hospital.
The concerned police stations were informed about the road crash, he added.
In another, a class seven student of Motijheel Government Ideal School Md Mahin Ahmed, 13, son of Masum Ahmed of Kishoreganj’s Bajitpur upazila , who used to live with his family in Mugda area, was critically injured after vehicle of Dhaka South City Corporation crashed him while he walking on the Mugda road around 9:30pm
He was first rushed to Mugda General Hospital and later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where he succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment, said the DMCH’s police outpost In-Charge Md Bachhu Mia.
In Dinajpur: A truck driver and his helper were killed after maize-laden truck and fertilizer-laden truck collided head-on near the TNT intersection of Ghoraghat upazila of the district at around 6am on Friday.
The deceased were driver of the maize-laden truck Golam Rabbi, 38, and his helper Rezwan Hosen, 32.
Officer-in-charge of Ghoraghat Police Station Asaduzzaman said being informed police visited the spot. Legal action will be taken.
In Manikganj: Two vegetable vendors Abdus Slam, 50, and Chanawer Hosen, 45, were killed when a covered-van ran over them on Dhaka-Aricha Highway near Golra Bus stand in Saturia upazila of the district at around 7am.
The victims were the residents of Katigram area of Manikganj Sadar upazila.
OC of Golra Highway police station Sukhendu Basu said the victims after collecting the vegetables from Gagir market in the morning were going to their area for selling those.
An unidentified covered-van knocked them down in the highway. The bodies are now under their custody.
In Gazipur: A man was killed and four others were injured after a CNG-run auto-rickshaw hit a covered van which was parked on Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Konabari area of the district early Friday.
The victim Saimun Islam, 37, was the son of Shamsul Alam of Kanuhari area of Mohanganj thana of Netrokona.
Sub-Inspector of Konabari police station under Gazipur Metropolitan Sohag Chawdhury said the Kaliakoir-bound auto-rickshaw from Chandina hit the covered van, leaving the one dead on the spot and four other passengers injured.
The injured were taken to local hospital but their identities could not be known immediately, he added.
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