Sirajganj, Bagerhat, Dinajpur road accidents kill five

A total of five people died and three others were injured in separate road accidents in Sirajganj, Bagerhat and Dinajpur districts on Monday night and early Tuesday, according to police, report agencies.
The deceased have been identified as Tarek, a private car driver, and his assistant Riad from Daudkandi upazila in Cumilla; student Abdul Hakim, 22; businessman Sourav Ali, 32, from Sadar upazila in Sirajganj and Rozina Khatun, 32, wife of Md Faruk Hossain, a resident of Shankarpur village under Biral upazila in Dinajpur district.
Officer-in-Charge Humayun Kabir of Sirajganj Sadar Police Station said that Hakim, driving a motorbike, collided with a stationary concrete mixer on the Sirajganj-Kazipur regional road in Pipulbaria Bazar around 9:00 pm, resulting in Sourav's death on the spot. Hakim succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital. The bodies were handed over to their families as there were no complaints from them.
In a separate incident, a private car headed for Bagerhat carrying five individuals, including Tarek and Riad, lost control and crashed into a roadside tree on the Khulna-Dhaka highway in the Madrasaghat area of Mollahat upazila early Tuesday. The crash killed the driver on the spot and injured four others.
Members of the Fire Service and Civil Defence rescued the injured and took them to the Upazila Health Complex, where Riad later passed away, said Mollahat Highway Police Station Officer-in-Charge Sheikh Nuruzzaman Chanu.
The remaining injured have been sent to Dhaka for further treatment.
In Dinajpur, a woman was killed as truck ran over her after she fell down from a battery-run easy bike in Nimnagar Balubari Shaheed Minar Mor area of the district town today.
However, her one-year-old child remained unharmed in her lap during the accident.
The victim was identified as Rozina Khatun, 32, wife of Md Faruk Hossain, a resident of Shankarpur village under Biral upazila in the district.
The accident occurred when she was going to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital for treatment by a batter-run easy bike with her one-year-old child. On the way, Rozina Khatun fell on the road with the child in her lap from the easy bike while it was taking a U-turn. At the same time, a truck from behind ran over Rozina around 12:30 pm, leaving her dead on the spot, officer-in-charge (OC) of Dinajpur Kotwali Police Station Inspector Md Matiur Rahman said.
However, the child in her lap is unharmed. In the accident, the driver was arrested and the truck seized and handed over to police by the local people.
Fire service and policemen recovered the body and sent it to Dinajpur Medical College morgue.