At least 42 people were killed and 63 others were injured in road accidents across Bangladesh during the Eid vacation in four days between Sunday and Wednesday.
Of the victims, 10 were killed in a single incident in Chattogram on Wednesday.
Of the total victims, 15 were killed in Chattogram, six in Gazipur, four each in Madaripur and Mymensingh, three each in Cumilla and Bogura, two each in Kushtia and Rangpur and one each was killed in Dhaka, Sherpur and Naogaon.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Chattogram reported that at least 10 people including three of a family were killed and two others injured as a bus collided with two microbuses on the Chattogram-Cox鈥檚 Bazar highway at Chunti Jangalia point under Lohagara upazila in Chattogram on Wednesday.
All the victims were passengers and a driver of the microbuses, the police said.
Four of the victims are Dilip Biswas, 43, his wife Sadhana Biswas, 37, Sadhana鈥檚 brother Ashish Mondal, 50, and Durjoy Mondal, 18, all residents of the Boalia area in Kushtia Sadar.
The accident occurred at about 7:00am when a Relax Paribahan bus from Cox鈥檚 Bazar was going Chattogram, said Lohagara police station officer-in-charge Arifur Rahman.
At that time the bus driver hit the brake after it approached a bend and the bus swerved across the road, he said, quoting eyewitnesses.
A speedy microbus on its way to Cox鈥檚 Bazar immediately hit the bus at first and another microbus from Cox鈥檚 Bazar hit the first microbus from the back.
He said that seven people died on the spot and five injured people were sent to different hospitals for treatment.
One of the injured victims died at the Lohagara Upazila Health Complex, he said, and added that the remaining ones were sent to Chattogram Medical College Hospital where two more died later.
On Tuesday, two tourist microbuses overturned at the Chunti Jangalia point on the Chattogram-Cox鈥檚 Bazar highway, leaving nine passengers injured.
On Monday, at least five youths were killed and nine others injured in a collision between a Soudia Paribahan bus and a minibus at the Chunti Jangalia point on the highway, the police said.
United News of Bangladesh reported that a man and his nephew died on the spot and another one was injured when a car hit a motorbike in front of Kushtia Zila School on the Kushtia-Jhenaidah road in Kushita district town at around 1:30am on Wednesday.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Gazipur reported that Gazipur Metropolitan Police constable Rony Shikder, 26, was killed at about 11:00am on Tuesday when a battery-run auto-rickshaw hit his motorcycle at Mouchak area in Kaliakoir on the Dhaka-Tangail highway.
On Monday, two people 鈥� five-year-old Tabassum and her maternal aunt Sheuli Akhter, 45, from Narsingdi district 鈥� were killed and three others injured in the Shibbari area of Gazipur city as a speedy bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw that had been carrying them at about 10:00am.
On Sunday, two auto-rickshaw passengers were killed and four others were injured when a speeding bus of Takwawa Paribahan hit the auto-rickshaw on the Dhaka-Tangail highway in the Konabari area of Gazipur.
On the same day, an unidentified pedestrian was killed on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Signboard area when an unidentified vehicle ran over him, said GMP鈥檚 Konabari police station officer-in-charge Nazrul Islam.
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, quoting locals and the police, reported that four people were killed when three motorcycles collided near Babukha Bridge of Kutubpur at Shibchar upazila in Madaripur on Tuesday.
United News of Bangladesh, quoting Chandina Fire Service station master Baharul Islam, reported that three people were killed and 25 others were injured as a Cumilla-bound 鈥楾isha Plus鈥� bus from Dhaka crashed into an electric pole and a tree on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chandina upazila of Cumilla Tuesday evening.
According to a BSS report, two teenage motorcyclists were killed and two others injured in a collision between two motorcycles and a battery-run van in the Taxerhat area of Badarganj upazila in Rangpur Tuesday afternoon.
Another UNB report read that a school security guard was killed in front of the Kamalapur BRTC counter in Dhaka when a bus hit him at about 1:00pm on Tuesday.
The incident occurred when he had been crossing the road, said Motijheel police station sub-inspector Abu Sale Shahin.
A BSS report read that three people including a man and his daughter were killed and four others injured in separate road accidents in Bogura on Monday.
According to the locals, Shariful Islam, 32, and his minor daughter Sejda, 3 were crossing the Dhaka-Bogura Highway on a motorcycle at Mahipur Jamtala area of Sherpur upazila at around 2.15pm when a Dhaka-bound bus hit them.
In a separate incident on the same day, three friends were traveling on a motorcycle, and after losing control at about 12:30pm, their motorcycle hit a tree near Jhumunia Bridge at Bishalpur Union in Sherpur leaving them seriously injured.
When locals took them to the Sherpur Upazila Health Complex, the duty doctor declared one dead.
On the same day, a Dhaka-bound bus collided head-on with a car in front of the Mahipur Fire Service on the highway, leaving two car passengers injured.
BSS also reported that a 17-year-old boy died on the spot and two of his friends were injured when the motorcycle hit a tree at overspeed in Naogaon鈥檚 Sapahar Upazila Monday morning.
Sapahar Police Station officer-in-charge Abdul Aziz said that one injured was shifted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital in critical condition and another to a local one.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Mymensingh reported that a woman, her daughter, and two granddaughters were killed and two were injured as a bus collided with their auto-rickshaw on the Mymensingh-Kishoreganj highway near the Chandrapara area in Gouripur upazila on March 30.
All victims were in the auto-rickshaw, said the police.
The victims are Kulsuma Begum, 95, wife of Obaidur Rahman, from Durbachar village in Bhangnamari union, her daughter Dilruba, 40, and her granddaughters Riti, 14 and Priti, 7.
Mirza Mazaharul Anwar, Gouripur Police Station officer-in-charge, said that the Kishoreganj-bound bus from Mymensingh collided with the Gouripur-bound auto-rickshaw.
