A total of five persons were killed in separate road accidents in Cumilla and Sylhet districts on Sunday and Saturday respectively, reports UNB.
In Cumilla, three people were killed and 10 others injured when a bus crashed into a roadside tree on Dhaka-Chattagram highway in Chauddagram upazila of Cumilla district on Sunday.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Jashim Uddin, officer-in-charge of Miarbazar Highway Police, said the accident occurred in Ghangra area around 12:30 pm when the driver of the 'Hanif Paribahan' bus lost control over steering, leaving three people dead on the spot and10 others injured.
The injured were taken to the Upazila Health Complex.
Police recovered the bodies and sent those to the local hospital morgue for autopsy.
In Sylhet, two passengers of a CNG-run autorickshaw were killed in a head-on collision with a passenger bus on the Sylhet-Dhaka highway in South Surma on Saturday.
The victims, Ruhul Amin, 26, son of Anjab Ullah from Islampur village in Jagannathpur, and Abdul Mukit, 40, son of Abdus Sattar from Bhabanipur village in the same upazila, died on the spot.
Four others, including the driver and a woman, were injured.
Mizanur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of South Surma Police Station, said the accident occurred around 7:30 pm at Lalabazar in South Surma when a Sylhet-bound passenger bus struck the oncoming autorickshaw.
Locals quickly responded, rescuing the injured passengers and driver and sent them to Osmani Medical College Hospital for treatment.
According to the police, the victims had rented the autorickshaw for a trip to Jagannathpur when the collision occurred.
The OC confirmed that investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of the crash.
