Five killed in separate road accidents

At least five people have been killed in three separate road accidents in three districts of the country. The accidents took place between Thursday night to Friday.

In Chandpur, three youths riding a motorbike on the way to a tourist spot were killed after a collision with a speeding bus on Chandpur-Cumilla highway on Friday, police said.

The accident near Hajiganj’s Dherra CNG station occurred at around 1.30 pm during the Jumma prayers.

The deceased were identified as Sohag Hossain, 30, Md. Monir Hossain, 30, and Md. Sujan Hossain, 28, resident of Belashwar area of Chandina in Cumilla.

Citing eyewitnesses Hajiganj police sub-inspector Joynal Abedin six young men were going from Chandina in Cumilla to Chandpur Molhead tourist spot on two motorcycles. At Dherra under Hajiganj, one of the motorcycles collided head-on with a passenger bus coming from the opposite, leaving three riders of a bike dead on the spot.

Hundreds of vehicles were stranded on the road after the accident. Meanwhile, locals managed to seize the bus, but the driver managed to escape. Joynal said that the bodies were taken to the police station. Legal action would be taken after the autopsy, he said.

In Pabna, a Tajik engineer of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant was killed after a goods-laden vehicle hit him in Ishwardi Upazila of Pabna district on Friday noon, police said.

The deceased was identified as Barjahan, 35. He was an engineer of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna’s Ishwardi Upazila.

Barjahan was a Tajik national working as an engineer of the Russian-owned Nikimoth Company.

According to police, Engineer Barjahan was seriously injured when a good-laden vehicle hit him from behind while working inside the project.

Later he was rescued and taken to Ishwardi Upazila Health Complex, where on-duty doctors declared him dead.

Being informed, police recovered the body, said inspector of Ishwardi police station (investigation) Hadiul Islam.

Arrangements will be made to send the body of the engineer to his country after the autopsy. An unnatural death case has been filed at Ishwardi police station in this regard, said the OC.

In Chattogram, one person was killed, and four others were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and an auto-rickshaw on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Kumira union of the district’s Sitakunda upazila on Thursday night.

The deceased is Md Jewel, the driver of the autorickshaw, a resident of village Uttar Bashbaria in the upazila.

The injured are Manik, 26, Kazi Moinul Islam, 25, Nurul Islam, 24, and Sagor, 25. They are undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital, said Md Firoz Mia, second officer of Kumira fire service station.

The accident occurred at about 9:00 pm in front of a petrol pump near the Sultana temple area of the highway, he said.