Seven workers of readymade garment factory were killed in an accident in Narshingdi while four others died in separate road accidents in Dhaka, Madaripur and Pabna.
The RMG workers were killed in a head-on collision between a stone-laden truck and a microbus in Narsingdi’s Shibpur upazila, early Friday, police said.
The accident occurred at Itakhola area of the upazila around 2:00am, leaving seven people dead and four others injured, said Itakhola highway police outpost in-charge inspector Md Kabir Hossain.
The deceased of Narsingdi accident were identified as Al-Amin Hawlader, 37, of Rajapur in Jhalakathi; Sabuj Mia, 32, of Deldowar in Tangail; Al Amin, 27, of Mirzapur in the same district; Abdul Awal, 40, of Kalkini in Madaripur; Aryan Raihan, 25, of Muladi in Barishal; Raju Mia, 37, of Sharishabari in Jamalpur, and the microbus driver Nasir Uddin, 28.
Four other injured in the incident were sent to Dhaka medical college hospital, police said.
Shibpur police station officer-in-charge Firoz Talukdar said that the microbus passengers were employees of SB knitting factory at Savar in Dhaka.
He said that the Sylhet-bound microbus collided head-on with the stone-laden truck coming from the opposite direction on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway.
Five people were killed on the spot as a result of the clashes. Later, one person died while being taken to Narsingdi sadar hospital and another died to his injuries after being admitted to the same hospital, OC Firoz said.
The injured were initially taken to Narsingdi sadar hospital and later transferred to Dhaka medical college hospital for better treatment, said inspector Kabir.
He said that the truck was seized and its driver was also arrested.
Quoting witnesses, the police officer said that the high speedy microbus tried to overtake a vehicle during rain and ended up crashing with the truck.
Meanwhile, four people were killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka, Madaripur and Pabna. Of them, two were killed in separate road accident in the capital on Friday at Banani and Mayor Hanif Flyover, Jatrabari.
A truck driver was killed as the rod-laden truck crashed into a covered van in the capital’s Banani area Friday morning.
The deceased was Md Shahjahan, 30, hailed from Mymensingh’s Gouripur. He used to driving truck on Hazaribagh-Tongi route. The accident took place early morning in front of Maasranga TV building, said Banani police sub-inspector Ejaz Haque.
Police seized both the vehicles but the covered van driver fled the scene, said the SI.
In another incident, a motorbike rider was killed after being hit by another motorbike on Mayor Hanif Flyover at Jatrabari in the afternoon.
The victim was identified as Zaber Hossain, 35.
A witness Imran Hossain said that the accident took place around 3:00pm when a motorbike hit another while overtaking on their way to Dholaipar.
New Age correspondent in Pabna reported that a schoolboy was killed when a battery-run vehicle overturned at Ishwardi in Pabna Friday morning.
The deceased was identified as Abei Hossain, 15, a 10th grader student of Bakhtarpur high school in the upazila.
Ishwardi police station inspector (investigation) Hasan Basir said that several passengers were injured in the accident at Sahapur. Among them, schoolboy Abir was killed on the spot.
In Madaripur, a motorcycle rider was killed and nine others were injured in a road accident when a Dhaka-bound bus crashed on the highway in Munsi Bazar area under Shibchar upazila of the district in the afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Akash, 24, from Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia, BSS reported.
The accident occurred around 2:30pm, when 10 people were going to Dhaka from Kushtia on five motorcycles.
On their way, they stopped to take rest on the road adjacent to the expressway at Munshi Bazar near Pacchar, parking their motorbikes on the roadside.
At that time, the driver of a Dhaka-bound passenger bus lost control over the steering and rammed into the parked motorcycles, leaving Akash dead on the spot, said Abdullah Hel Baki, SI of Shibchar Highway police station.
