Photo shows a portion of the microbus that hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw killing two persons on the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf Marine Drive in Cox's Bazar district on Thursday — UNB A total of four people were killed and five others injured in separate road accidents in Cox's Bazar and Khagrachhari on Thursday and Wednesday, reports UNB.
In Cox's Bazar, two persons were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between a microbus and an auto-rickshaw on Cox's Bazar-Teknaf Marine Drive in the district early Thursday.
However, the identities of the victims are yet to be known, police said.
The accident occurred when the microbus hit the CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Marine Drive on Thursday morning. The crash left two passengers of the auto-rickshaw dead on the spot.
The injured occupants of the auto-rickshaw were rushed to Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital, said Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Model Police Station. "Their condition is said to be critical."
Both the vehicles have been seized, the OC added.
In Khagrachhari, two people were killed and two others injured in a road crash at Budong Para of Guimara upazila in Khagrachhari on Wednesday morning.
The deceased were identified as trader Jibon Majumder, 55, and his son Ratif Majumder, 14, of the upazila.
Police said, "The accident occurred when a cement-laden truck they were in lost control and crashed into a roadside hill on Khagrachhari-Chattogram road in Budong Para, leaving both father and son dead on the spot".
Meanwhile, driver Mehedi Prakash Lavlu and another injured were sent to Matiranga Upazila Health Complex, said Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Guimara Police Station.
The bodies were sent to Khagrachhari Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy, the OC added.
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