Six people were killed in separate road accidents in Mymensingh, Tangail and Chattogram on Friday evening and Saturday.
In Mymensingh, a couple were killed as a bus ran over them while they were crossing the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Bhaluka on Friday evening.
The deceased are Abbas Ali Dewan, 60, and his wife Hazera Khatun, 50, of Kalmegha village of Sakhipur upazila of Tangail.
According to police, Abbas Ali and his wife came to visit his granddaughter鈥檚 house.
A bus of Shahjalal Paribahan hit the couple when they were crossing the road, leaving them dead on the spot.
Shah Kamal Akanda, officer-in-charge of the Bhaluka model police station, said that the highway police recovered the bodies.
Police seized the bus but its driver managed to escape.
In Tangail, two people were killed in a road accident in Pauli area of Kalihati upazila on Saturday morning.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. However, police said that the deceased were the driver and his assistant of the covered van.
Mir Mohammad Sajedur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Elenga highway police outpost, said that a Dhaka-bound covered van crashed into a lorry on the south side of Pauli Bridge on the Dhaka-North Bengal highway.
The front part of the covered van was smashed, leaving the driver and his assistant of the covered dead on the spot, he said.
In Chattogram, two people were killed and two others injured in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Chattogram-Khagrachari highway in Hathazari upazila in Chattogram on Saturday noon.
The deceased are Abdul Motaleb Tuku, 70, and Md Absar,55 of Hathazari upazila.
Nazirhat highway police station sub-inspector Anisul Islam said that the injured were taken to a hospital.
