Road crashes kill five in three districts
Thursday, 18 January 2018
LAKSHMIPUR, Jan 17 (BSS): Three people including a child were killed and four others injured in a road accident in Charthika area under Kamalnagar upazila of the district on Wednesday.
The deceased are identified as Harunur Rashid, 45, son of Ali Azam, Amena Begum, 60, wife of Abul Kalam and Rinku, 4, residents of Undrchar area in Noakhali district.
Officer-in-Charge of Kamalnagar police station Akul Chandra Biswas said the accident occurred when a goods-laden tractor hit an auto rickshaw in the area, leaving two passengers of the auto rickshaw dead on the spot and five others injured.
Among the injured, another died on the way to Zila Sadar Hospital.
Meanwhile, UNB adds: In Jessore, the wife of a policeman was killed in a road accident at Murail intersection in the district town on Tuesday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Selina Begum, 38, wife of Abdur Rashid, assistant sub-inspector of Khulna Metropolitan Police.
In Sunamganj, a young man was killed and a septuagenarian man injured in a road accident at Koitok Point on Sunamgonj-Sylhet Highway in Chhatak upazila on Tuesday noon.
The deceased was identified as Noman Ali, 20, son of Hafiz Muddasir Ali of Shingchapair.
The injured was taken to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.