Naogaon, Meherpur road accidents kill six

A total of six people were killed in separate road accidents in Naogaon and Meherpur districts on Wednesday night and Thursday, reports UNB.
In Naogaon, four people, including a two-year-old child, were killed and 15 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Naogaon on Wednesday night, police said.
The accident occurred around 9pm on Badalgachhi-Patnitala Regional Road in the district's Mohadevpur upazila.
"The Naogaon-bound bus crashed into the truck coming from the opposite direction," said Azam Uddin Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Mohadevpur police station.
Two passengers of the bus died on the spot and 17 were injured, he said.
The injured were taken to Badalgachhi Upazila Health Complex and Naogaon Sadar Hospital. Five of the seriously injured were later shifted to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) after their condition worsened.
"The child succumbed to his injuries at Naogaon Sadar Hospital at night while another injured at Badalgachhi Upazila Health Complex died on Thursday morning," said the OC.
Two of the deceased were identified as Abdur Rashid, 37, and Girij Pahan, 35, of Soasa village in Badalgachhi upazila. The identity of the child and another deceased could not be known immediately.
In Meherpur, two persons were killed when a speeding truck crashed into a stationary lorry on Meherpur-Chuadanga Road in the district early on Thursday morning, police said.
The deceased were identified as truck driver Shahadat Hossain, 45, and his helper Faruk Hossain, 42, both residents of Sathia upazila of Pabna district.
"The ill-fated truck coming from Chuadanga crashed into the sand-laden lorry that broke down and had been parked on the roadside in the Old Dorbeshpur area around 6am," said assistant sub-inspector ASI Shakhawat Hossain of the local police camp in Baradi.