Five people including four members of a family were killed in separate road accidents in Mirsarai and Hathazari upazilas of Chattogram on Tuesday.
In Mirsarai, a truck crashed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in the Khoiyachhora area, leaving all its four passengers, including a child, dead on the spot when they were on their way to attend an event in Sitakunda.
The auto-rickshaw got smashed and the truck fell into a roadside ditch after the crash, said police and witnesses.
The deceased were identified as Kajol Rekha, Nurjahan, Shirina, and 7-month-old infant Nihat.
Sohel Sarkar, officer-in-charge of Jorarganj Highway Police Station, said they went to the spot upon receiving news of the accident and recovered the bodies.
In a separate incident in Hathazari upazila, Mohammad Azwad Mahin, a madrasah student, was killed after being hit by a speeding bus on the Chittagong-Khagrachhari road.
Following the accident, fellow madrasa students and residents blocked the road in protest. Police later arrived at the scene and brought the situation under control.
