Time Digital Report: Four people, including a child and a teenager, were killed in separate road accidents in Chattogram, Gazipur and Tangail on Thursday.
Parul Begum, 30, and her daughter Choa Moni, 4, were killed in a road accident in the afternoon in the Baghbari area under Bhuapur upazila in Tangail.
The mother-daughter duo was travelling by an auto-rickshaw when a fuel-laden truck from the opposite direction ran them over and killed them on the spot, reported our Tangail correspondent.
Officer-in-charge of Bhuapur police station MD Faridul Islam said, ‘The driver managed to flee the scene with the truck. The bodies will be handed over to the family,’ he said.
A 15-year-old girl was killed after a truck overturned on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram early Thursday, reported TNBD.
The deceased was identified as Priya Rani Rishi, a resident of the Sitakunda railway station area and a worker at a shoe factory under Bashbaria union.
Shahadat Hossain, the inspector of the Kumira highway police outpost, said that she was crushed under the truck and killed on the spot.
Ruling Bangladesh Awami League’s student unit activist Mehedi Hasan Rahat, 20, died in a motorbike accident on Wednesday evening, leaving Saidur Rahman injured at Kapasia in Gazipur.
The incident occurred in Sripur’s Satiabari area, reported our Gazipur correspondent.
Witnesses said that the victim’s motorbike hit a dog, and both fell on the road when a car ran over Mehedi.
‘Locals rushed both of them to a local hospital and then to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Medical College Hospital, where the attending doctor declared Mehedi dead. Saidul was seriously injured and was sent to Dhaka for better treatment,’ told Sripur police station officer-in-charge Md Muniruzzaman.
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