At least four people, including a mother and her infant daughter, were killed, and 20 others were injured in road crashes in Pabna and Mymensingh yesterday.
Police have seized the bus and a case has been filed with the police station
Sufia Begum, a 55-year-old woman from Munshiganj’s Sreenagar, suffered severe injuries to her right hand when a motorcycle struck her on the day of Eid-ul-Azha (Saturday) when she was crossing a road near her home.
The accident occurred around 9:00am near the Kakoli bus stand
For long, Billal Fakir, 40, and his family wanted a fourth child. On the day their wish was to be granted, fate betrayed them.
An SSC examinee was run over by a truck in Uttara yesterday, shortly after he came out of the examination centre.
Victims identified
Road accidents claimed at least 41 lives and injured numerous others across the country during the Eid holidays since Monday.
A passenger bus and a microbus collided head-on in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram
Over 7,902 people were killed in 6,261 road accidents last year, said a Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS) report released yesterday.
Four persons died and four others were injured as two private cars collided head-on on 300 feet road in Purbachal this morning.
A constable was killed and another was seriously injured when a local train hit a police van in Jamalpur's Sadar upazila early today
At least seven persons were killed after a bus rammed an auto-rickshaw in Hathazari area of Chattogram this morning
Three people were killed and 12 injured when a bus rammed a into a stationary truck on the Dhaka-Mawa expressway in Munshiganj early today
Govt attitude must change for such tragedies to end
Earlier today, “Bachelor Point” director Kajal Arefin Ome and actor Ziaul Hoque Polash were involved in a massive car accident. The news was confirmed to The Daily Star by Ome himself.
The actress was the passenger on a bike, which swerved to avoid a cyclist that suddenly came in front of them, forcing the bike’s driver to brake suddenly.
Road crash data from two government agencies does not match and this could lead to problems in making informed decisions on road safety
Five hundred and sixty-four people were killed and 1,097 injured in 486 road accidents throughout the country in March this year, according to a report of Road Safety Foundation.
