At least five people were killed and three others injured in road accidents in Munshiganj and Gopalganj districts on Saturday.聽
The United News of Bangladesh reported that in Gopalganj district, four people were killed and three others injured when a bus crashed into a battery-run easy bike on Dhaka-Khulna highway near Majhigati bus stand in Kashiani upazila at about 12 noon.
One of the deceased, identified as Obaidul Sheikh, 48, of Helencha village in Alfadanga upazila of Faridpur, was a fish trader.
The identities of the other victims could not be confirmed immediately.
Bhanga Highway Police sergeant Md Rasel Mia said that the Dhaka-bound Imad Paribahan bus coming from Khulna hit an easy bike going to Alfadanga in Faridpur taking wedding-party passengers from Madaripur, leaving a passenger dead on the spot.
The injured five people were taken to Kashiani Upazila Health Complex where another victim succumbed to injuries.
Three critically injured ones were shifted to Gopalganj 250-bed General Hospital where two more victims died.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Munshiganj reported that a 14-year-old schoolgirl was killed after a bus ran over her on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in the district鈥檚 Old Bawshia area.聽聽
The incident occurred at about 7:30am, prompting her classmate and local residents to block the highway for one and a half hours in protest when three buses of Star Line Paribahan were vandalised.
The deceased, Srabonti Akter, 14, was an eighth-grade student of Gazaria Technical School and College.
According to witnesses, Srabonti was waiting at the roadside to cross the road to go to school when a speeding bus coming from Chittagong ran over her, killing her on the spot.聽
Sharmin Sultana, a physician of Gazaria Upazila Health Complex, said, 鈥楾he student was brought dead to our hospital around 7:45am.鈥�
Gazaria Bhoberchar Outpost Highway Police inspector Md Shawkat Hossain said, 鈥楾raffic on the highway was halted for some time due to the blockade. Legal action regarding the incident is under way.鈥櫬�
