Dhaka, Nov 29 (Just News) : Two schoolteachers among six people were killed and three others injured in separate road accidents in, Bagethat, Pabna and Sirajganj districts on Wednesday night and early Thursday.
Two teachers were killed as a speeding truck hit the motorcycle they were in on the Bagerhat-Mawa highway at Joydihi village in Mollahat, Bagerhat on Wednesday night.
The deceased are Rafiqul Islam, 45, assistant teacher of Sorospur Government Primary School and Baharul Alam Molla, 43, of Sorospur Dakkhinpara Government Primary School, both from Sorospur village.
Sub-inspector of Katakhali Highway police camp Malay Ray said the truck hit the motorcycle around 10pm at the place, leaving the duo severely injured.
The injured were taken to Khulna Medical College Hospital where duty doctors declared them dead around 10:30pm.
In Pabna, a woman and her daughter were killed and another was injured when a trolley hit a van carrying them at Char Bangania in Sadar upazila on Thursday.
The deceased are Rini Khatun, 35, wife of Akbar Ali and her daughter Barsha, 7 of the village.
Obaidul Haque, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station, said the accident took place around 9:00am when a brick-laden trolley hit the van, leaving two people dead on the spot and van puller Akbar injured.
The injured was taken to Pabna General Hospital.
In Sirajganj, two people were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between two trucks at Soyedabad in Sadar upazila early Thursday.
The identities of the deceased could not be known as yet.
Abdul Hamid, deputy assistant of Sirajganj Fire Service and Civil Defense, said the accident took place around 1:00am when a Northern region-bound iron rod-laden truck from Dhaka collided head on with another truck, leaving two people dead on the spot and two others injured.
On information, a firefighting unit went to the spot and recovered the bodies.
The injured were taken to a local hospital.
(JustNews/mj/1140hr.)
