More than 7,000 people were killed in road accidents throughout the country last year, Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS) said in a report today.
The BJKS Secretary General Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury revealed the report at a press conference in the capital’s Jatiya Press Club around 11:00am.
According to the report, a total of 7,221 people were killed and 15,466 others injured in total 5,514 road crashes across the country in 2018.
Apart from this, a total of 339 people died and 248 were injured in 370 train accidents the same year, the report said.
At least 126 people were killed, 234 others injured and 387 went missing in the accidents on waterways while reports of 55 people’s death came from crashes of planes which left Bangladesh last year.
