Ctg, Cumilla road accidents kill six

A total of six people were killed in separate road accidents in Chattogram and Cumilla districts on Wednesday and Thursday, reports UNB.

In Chattogram, at least four people have been killed and five, including an inspector of Highway Police, hurt in Chattogram's Mirsharai, where a collision took place before midnight.

"Wednesday's accident occurred at 10:45pm at Dakshin Sonapahar of Zorarganj as a covered van crashed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw," Mohammad Khairul Alam, officer-in-charge of Zorarganj police station, said.

There was a first crash involving a Chattogram-bound bus and a Dhaka-bound lorry. Although there were no casualties, the drivers and passengers of the vehicles got into a heated debate.

In Cumilla, two people were killed and two others injured when a bus crashed into a three-wheeler on the busy Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Cumilla district on Thursday.

The deceased were identified as Joynal Abedin, 35, son of Siraj Haque, and Imran Hossain, 30, son of Alfu Mia of Sadar Dakkhin upazila. All the victims were occupants of the battery-run three-wheeler.

The accident occurred in the Beltoli area of the upazila around 8am when the Dhaka-bound bus of 'Econo Paribahan' coming from Chattogram hit the three-wheeler at high speed, said Akul Chandra Biswas, officer-in-charge of Mainamati Highway Police Station.