At least four people, including a child, were killed in separate road accidents in Natore and Dinajpur districts on Thursday.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Rajshahi reported that a woman and her four-year-old child were killed as a microbus collided head-on with a battery-run three-wheeler on Ishwardi-Baneswar regional highway at Lalpur upazila in Natore.
The deceased are Rubina Khatun, 30, wife of Mahabub Alam of Udhanpara village under the upazila and their daughter Rokeya Khatun.
According to police and witnesses, a microbus, heading to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital from Bheramara of Kushtia, collided head-on with a three-wheeler at Jamtala area under Durduria union, leaving the duo dead on the spot.
Nasim Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Lalpur police station, said that they had seized the microbus but its driver managed to escape.
Rubina鈥檚 brother-in-law Tofazzal Hossain lodged a written complaint with the police station in this connection and the police were taking necessary actions, the OC added.
Two people were killed in separate road crashes on the Dinajpur-Gobindaganj regional highway in Panchbari and Kaugaon intersection areas under Sadar upazila in Dinajpur, reported Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.
The deceased are motorcyclist Salim Hossain, 30, son of Shaukat Hossain of Amtali of Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur and microbus driver Jewel Hossain, 48, son of Antaj Ali of Dakshin Devipur village of Ghoraghat upazila in the same district.
Dinajpur Kotwali police station OC Farid Hossain said that motorcyclist Salim was crushed under a goods-laden truck on the highway at about 3:30pm and died on the spot.
Police recovered the body from the spot and sent to Dinajpur M Abdur Rahim medical and college hospital for autopsy.
Microbus driver Jewel Hossain died as a microbus and a mango-laden pickup van collided head-on in Kaugaon intersection area at about 10:00am, leaving him severely injured, said Farid.
Jewel was taken to the same hospital, where he died at about 4:00pm.
Preparations were underway to file a case in this regard, the police official added.