At least 12 people were killed and six others injured in road accidents in Cox鈥檚 Bazar, Sylhet, Jashore, Tangail, Jhenaidah and Gopalganj districts on Wednesday.聽
Six of the deceased are women and two are children.
United News of Bangladesh reported that in Cox鈥檚 Bazar, four women and a child of the same family were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus in Chakaria upazila.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately, said the police.
Malumghat Highway Police officer-in-charge Mehedi Hasan said that the accident occurred around 9:00am on the busy Cox鈥檚 Bazar-Chattogram highway to the southern end of Fashiakhali Hasher Dighi Army Camp in Malumghat area of Chakaria.
The Chattogram-bound bus of 鈥楳arsa Paribahan鈥� collided with the Cox鈥檚 Bazar-bound microbus, leaving two dead on the spot and five others injured, he said.
The injured were taken to a nearby hospital where physicians declared three others dead, the OC said, adding that the rest injured were admitted to the hospital.
抖阴精品 staff correspondent in Sylhet reported that at the district鈥檚 sadar upazila two men were killed and four others were injured when a sand-laden city-bound speeding truck collided head-on with the CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Sylhet-Tamabil highway.
The accident happened at Khadimnagar.聽
The deceased were identified as the auto-rickshaw driver Munna Miah, 20, son of Ataur Rahman of Umanpur village at Chiknagul union under Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet, and Tajul Islam, 40, of Bahubal area under the Shah Paran police in the city.
Shah Paran police officer-in-charge Monir Hossain said that the injured were taken to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital in critical condition.
He said that they seized the sand-laden truck from the spot but its driver and his assistant fled.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Jashore reported that in the district, a couple were killed when their motorcycle collided head-on with a power tiller at Bakoshpole village under Monirampur upazila.
The victims were identified as Ranjit Kumar Das, lecturer of a local college, and his wife Papia Das, a technician at the Monirampur office of the department of Public Health, said Monirampur Fire Service station officer Shafayat Hossain.
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported that in Tangail, a woman was killed in a collision between a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Tangail-Mymensingh highway in Kalihati upazila.
The deceased was identified as Khaleda Akhter, 39, wife of Salam Mia of Rajfair village of Kalihati.
The police said that a speeding auto-rickshaw hit a stationary truck from behind, seriously injuring four passengers on board.
Locals took the injured to Tangail Sadar Hospital where the on-duty doctors declared Khaleda Akhter dead.
BSS reported that in Jhenaidah, a young driver of a makeshift motorised vehicle, locally known as Alam sadhu, was killed when a speeding pickup van hit his vehicle near Dakbangla Bazar on Jhenaidah-Chuadanga highway.
The deceased was identified as Abu Bakar Kallol, 30, son of Mir Abul Kashem of Jibne village under Chuadanga Sadar upazila.
BSS also reported that in Gopalganj, a five-year-old girl was killed when a speeding engine-run van hit her in Mansabari Bazar area of Amtoli union under Kotalipara upazila, while she was crossing the road.
The deceased was Saima Khanam, daughter of late Shahjalal Mia of the same area.