Road crashes kill 8 in 3 districts

At least eight people were killed and 22 injured in separate road crashes in Comilla, Munshiganj and Manikganj today.

Three people were killed in Munshiganj, three others in Comilla and the remaining two in Manikganj Sadar, our local correspondents report.

MUNSHIGANJ

A private car plunged into a roadside ditch and hit a tree at Daribaushia around 11:00am, said Kamruzzaman Raj, sergeant of Bhoberchar police outpost.

Private car passenger Kajol Rani Das died on the spot and four others were injured in the accident.

The injured were rushed to the local upazila health complex where Ratan Chandra Das and the driver, whose identity could not be known immediately, died later.

COMILLA

Three people were killed and nine injured as a bus overturned after hitting a road divider on Dhaka-Chittagong highway near Chouddagram upazila gate around 3:45am. 

Two of the deceased were identified as Omor Faruk 29, and Majeda Akter, 60, reports Bangla daily Prothom Alo. Of the injured, five were rushed to Comilla Medical College Hospital where one’s condition is said to be critical.

Abdullah Al Mahfuz, inspector (investigation of) Chouddagram Police Station confirmed the incident.

MANIKGANJ

Three policemen were injured as their pickup van hit a roadside tree at Baghia of Manikganj Sadar upazila around 3:30am, said Manikganj Sadar Officer-in-Charge Aminur Rahman.

The injured policemen – sub-inspector Anwarul Islam, 54, and constables Safikul Islam, 36, and Abdus Salam, 35, -- are now undergoing treatment at Manikganj Sadar Hospital, said Dr Rahmat Ullah of the hospital’s emergency unit.

Meanwhile, a youth was killed and eight cattle traders injured as a cattle-laden three-wheeler overturned at Char-Tilli of Saturia upazila around 10:45am, said Habibullah Sarker, officer in charge of Saturia Police Station.

The deceased was identified as Johirul Islam, 26, son of Shofij Uddin of Panan village under Nagarpur upazila of Tangail. He is a master’s student at Korotia Sadat University College in Tangail.

Also, Rehaj Uddin, son of Sena Uddin of Kashemnagar village of Singair upazila, was killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw hit him around 10:00am, said OC Syeduzzaman of Singair Police Station.