At least nine people were killed and 12 others injured in three separate road accidents in Dhaka, Bogra and Tangail on Saturday.
In Dhaka, a man was killed after a bus hit a rickshaw he was on in the Karwan Bazar area.
The incident took place at around 3:45am.
The deceased have been identified as Md Ibrahim Biswas, 24.
Sub-Inspector (SI) of Shahbag police station Md Sahabuddin said a speeding bus hit a rickshaw, injuring both the rickshaw puller and Ibrahim.
They were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where doctors declared Ibrahim dead, he added.
The bus managed to flee from the spot.
In Bogra, at least four people were killed and one injured in a head-on collision between a private car and pickup van.
The incident took place at around 8:30am on the Bogra-Naogaon road of the district’s Kahaloo upazila.
One of the deceased has been identified as Abdur Rahman, 35, and information about the other victim could not be known immediately, said Officer-in-Charge (OC) Ambar Hossain of Kahaloo police station.
The OC said the Bogra-bound car was hit by a pickup van, killing three and injuring two people on the spot.
Locals rushed them to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital, where doctors pronounced Rahman dead.
The injured victim of the road crash, Shakil, 20, is in critical condition, the officer added.
In Tangail, at least four people were killed and another 10 were injured in a collision between a bus and a sand-laden truck on the Dhaka-Tangail highway on Saturday.
The names of the deceased could not be known immediately. All of them were men.
The accident also momentarily brought traffic movement on the lane towards Dhaka to a standstill.
Mirzapur police later moved the bus with a wrecker and restored the movement of vehicles on the road.
Gorai highway police station OC Molla Tutul said the bus had rammed into the parked truck from behind, leaving three people on the bus dead on the spot.
The injured had been taken to an area hospital, where another person had succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment, the police officer added.
