Cumilla, Shariatpur road crashes kill five

A total of five persons were killed in separate road accidents in Cumilla and Shariatpur districts on Tuesday, reports agencies.

In Cumilla, four people were killed and three were injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Chandina upazila of Cumilla early Tuesday.

The deceased were identified as Monir Hossain, Habibur Rahman, Akhter Hossain and Rafiqul Islam.

Police said that a Dhaka- bound truck carrying fish from Noakhali overturned and collided with a parked truck in Chandina's Belasar area.

In Shariatpur, a labour was killed and three others were injured in a road accident in Amin Bazar area on the Shariatpur-Chandpur Regional Highway under Sadar upazila here on Tuesday morning.

The deceased was identified as Lokman Sheikh, 38, hailed from Hogla village in Sadar upazila of the district.