Four die in Lalmonirhat, Mymensingh road crashes

LALMONIRHAT, June 26 (UNB): Two people were killed and seven others injured in a road crash on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway at Palashi Bazar in Aditmari upazila on Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as Nandu Chandra Roy, 55 and Rabiul Islam, 42, an auto-rickshaw driver of KakinaWabda Bazar in Kaliganj upazila.
Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Aditmari Police Station said the accident took place around 7.00 am when a truck hit an auto-rickshaw carrying eight people, leaving two people, including the auto-rickshaw driver, dead on the spot and seven others injured.
The injured were taken to a local hospital from where four were shifted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital.
In Mymensingh, two people were killed after a truck plunged into a roadside ditch at Lengra Bazar in Muktagaccha upazila on Wednesday.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Ali Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Muktagaccha Police Station, said the accident took place around 6:30am when a Mymensingh-bound goods-laden truck fell into the ditch.
The driver and his assistant were killed on the spot.
On information, police recovered the bodies and sent them to local hospital for autopsy.