A total of six persons were killed in separate road accidents in Sirajganj and Gazipur districts on Monday, report agencies.
In Sirajganj, four member of same family were killed in a head-on collision between a truck and a private car in Hatikumrul-Banpara Highway near the Hatikumrul of Sirajganj on Monday early morning.
The dece-ased have been identified as Jasim Uddin, 65, his wife Myna Khatun, 60, and their two sons, Jamal Uddin, 45, and Kamal Uddin, 40, all from Narsi-nghpur village in Bagmara Upazila of Rajshahi district.
The driver of the private car sustained serious injuries and has been admitted to the hospital in critical condition.
Md. Nurul Islam Babu, a sub-officer of the Ullapara Fire Service and Civil Defense said that the private car was coming from Dhaka to Rajshahi when it collided head-on with a truck coming from the opposite direction around 3:30 am on Monday.
Upon receiving the news, fire service personnel rushed to the scene and recovered the bodies, which have been kept at Solonga Police Station.
Md. Taj Uddin, the investigating officer of Solonga Police Station, confirmed the matter.
It is suspected that the truck managed to flee the scene as the police had not been patrolling the highway since the Hatikumrul Highway Police Station was set on fire during an anti-discrimination protest on August 05.
In Gazipur, an unidentified motorcyclist was killed in a road accident after being hit by a truck on the Dhaka-Tangail highway in Kodda area of Gazipur on Monday.
The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.
The accident occurred when a truck hit the unidentified motorcyclist's vehicle in the area around 5:30 am this morning as he was heading to Gazipur from Tangail, leaving him dead on the spot, sub-inspector (SI) of Basan Police Station of Gazipur metropolis Dulal Chandra said.
Police recovered the body from the spot and sent it to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy, the SI added.
