29 March 2024

4 killed in Gazipur, Bagerhat road crashes

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Four people including a truck driver were killed in separate road accidents in Gazipur and Bagerhat this morning.

In Gazipur, at least three people were killed as a pickup van hit a covered van in Joydevpur on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway.

The identities of the deceased couldn’t be known immediately.

Joydevpur Fire Service Senior Station Officer Md Abu Yusuf said the Mymensingh-bound pickup van hit the covered van from behind at Nanduain at around 8am, leaving the three people dead at the spot.

Fire Service members recovered the bodies and handed it over to police. The bodies were sent to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Hospital for autopsy, he added.

In Bagerhat, a truck driver was killed as his truck hit a roadside tree at Mulghor on Khulna-Mawa highway in Fakirhat upazila this morning.

The deceased was identified as Kamal Hossain of Noornagar in Khulna.

Katakhali Highway Police’s Officer-in-Charge Md RabiulAlam said that the Barishal-bound goods-laden truck coming from Mongla crashed into a roadside tree after its driver lost control over the steering, leaving him dead on the spot and his helper injured.

Fire Service members recovered the body and sent it to Khulna Medical College and Hospital for autopsy. Injured helper Shamim Hossain, 28, was also admitted to the hospital.


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