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Three people were killed and 10 others injured in separate road accidents in Chattogram and Rajshahi districts on Friday.
In Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila a speeding truck ran over a rickshaw van puller, leaving him dead on the spot
The deceased was identified as Akram Sheikh, 35, son of Ledu Sheikh of Kamda Para of Bagerhat district.
According to the police, van driver Akram Sheikh died after being hit by a speeding truck in the Dhopar Dighir Par area of Nondir Hat in Hathazari.
Akram’s van was hit by the truck while crossing the road, leaving him dead on the spot, said Md Dalim Hossain, sub-inspector at Raujan Highway Police.
Later, the body was recovered and sent to Chittagong Medical College (CHMEC) Hospital.
Meanwhile, a passenger was killed in a head-on collision between two buses on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway in the Indrapul area of the district’s Patiya upazila.
The deceased was identified as Md Rubel, 35, son of Nurul Anwar of the Patharghata area under Kotwali police station of the city.
Saiful Islam, sub-inspector at Patia Highway Police Station, said that a local bus named Maayer Doa, heading to Chittagong, collided head-on with a Cox's Bazar-bound MR Travels Paribahan bus from Dhaka, leaving Rubel dead on the spot and eight others injured.
Among the injured, Mostakin, 23 and Md Arif, 24 were taken to Chattogram Medical College Hospital, the police official said.
In Rajshahi, a youth was killed and two others injured as their motorbike collided head-on with a bus in the Railway Koshaipara area under Godagari upazila here Friday afternoon.
The deceased identified as Sadikul Islam, 23, son of Saber Ali, was a resident of Chanduria village under Tanore upazila.
The injured - Razzaque Ali, 40, son of late Tamir Uddin and Raihan Ali, 35, son of Lutfor Rahman - are now undergoing treatment.
Kamrul Islam, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Godagari Police Station, said when they were going to Godagari riding on a motorbike, a bus from the opposite direction knocked them down.
