Three people killed in separate road accidents in Cumilla and Bogura.
In Cumilla, two people were killed and four others injured when a microbus overturned after being hit by a truck on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in the district’s Daudkandi, police said.
The accident took place at Shahidnagar in Daudkandi upazila of the highway at 8:30am on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Badsha Mia of Daudkandi’s Bhabanipur and Dulal Mia of Ketundi village.
Jahangir Alam, officer-in-charge of Daudkandi Highway Police Station, said a truck hit the Daudkandi-bound microbus from behind. As a result, the microbus overturned on the side of the road killing two and injuring four others.
The injured were undergoing treatment at Gauripur Upazila Health Complex.
Meanwhile, the police recovered the bodies of the deceased and sent them to the Gauripur Upazila Health Complex morgue for autopsy. The vehicles involved in the accident have also been seized, the OC said.
In Bogura, a 10-year-old schoolboy died after being run over by a speeding bus on Bogura-Naogaon highway in Adamdighi upazila of the district on Sunday morning, said police.
Abu Bakar Siddique was son of Shamim Miah of Dalomba Basatipara under the upazila and a class two student of a local government primary school.
Rezaul Karim, an officer-in-charge of Adamdighi police station, said the accident occurred around 8:30am when the Dhaka-bound bus from Naogaon ran over the boy while he was crossing the highway to go to his school in Dalomba Basatipara Bauttali area.
The impact of the incident left him dead on the spot, he said, adding that the body was handed over to the family.
The bus managed to flee.
An unnatural death case was filed in connection with the accident, the police officer added.
