Nine people were killed and eight injured in separate road crashes in Sirajganj and Manikganj today ahead of the homebound season of Eid.

In Sirajganj's Ullapara upazila, five persons died and one other injured after a bus rammed a CNG-driven auto-rickshaw head-on around 9:30am.

The dead were all passengers of the auto-rickshaw, our Pabna correspondent reports quoting Tajul Huda, officer-in-charge of Ullapara Police Station.

The incident took place in Boalkhali area of the Sirajganj-Pabna highway. Only one of the victims could be identified as Bakul, driver of the auto-rickshaw.

In Manikganj Sadar, four people died and seven others were injured after a bus collided with a pick-up van coming in from the opposite direction in BSIC industrial area around 1:30am.

Two of the victims were identified as bus passenger Tokdir Molla, 70, from Lohagora of Narail, and pick-up driver Rasel, 35, of Gonapara in Gopalganj, our Manikganj correspondent reports quoting police.

Dhaka-bound passenger bus of Sad Paribahan, that departed Narail, collided with a fish-laden pick-up van leaving three dead on the spot and eight injured, said Mijanul Haque, officer-in-charge of Golora Highway Police Station.

One of the injured succumbed on the way to hospital. The other injured were taken to Manikganj Sadar Hospital for treatments. Both the dilapidated vehicles were seized by police.