United News of Bangladesh

Three people were killed and another was injured when a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Kaliakoir-Phulbaria road at Namashulai in Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur district on Saturday.One of the deceased was identified as Obaidul while the identities of two others could not be known yet. The accident occurred around 8 am when the truck crashed into the CNG-run auto-rickshaw, leaving three people dead on the spot and another injured, said Quamrul Hasan, Sub-inspector of Kaliakoir Police Station. Spinning mill workers block highway in Gazipur over unpaid wagesThe injured were taken to Kaliakair Upazila Health Complex.

Four people died when a cycle van was sandwiched between two buses on the busy Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur on Saturday morning. The horrific accident in the Telipara area of the city at 8am disrupted traffic movement on the high-speed corridor for over half an hour, before cops cleared the carriageway. The deceased were identified as van puller Borhanuddin, 45, a resident of Mymensingh district, and Yunus Ali, a fish trader, both occupants of the ill-fated cycle van. The other two deceased were a pedestrian, Sohrab Hossain, 32, who worked at a local garment factory, and Hazrat Ali, 34, the conductor of one of the buses. "The accident occurred when the driver of a speeding bus of ‘Basumoti Paribahan’ hit the fish-loaded van from behind and then dragged it to a distance where another bus was parked," said officer-in-charge of Bashan Police Station, Malek Khasru. The impact of the crash was such that the van got sandwiched between the two buses, killing its two occupants, as well as the pedestrian and the conductor of the stationary bus waiting for passengers, the OC said. On information, police recovered the bodies and sent them to the local hospital morgue. "Efforts are on to nab the errant bus driver who fled the spot after the accident," said the OC.  

At least two people were killed and three injured on Saturday as a bus collided with a moving train at Sonakhali level crossing of Gazipur’s Kaliakair.

A mother and her nine-month-old daughter were killed and five others were injured in a road accident at Mouchak Aambagan area in Kaliakair upazila on Sunday morning.

Three people, including a woman and her daughter, were killed and two others injured when a bus hit an auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Kapasia-Monohardi road at Ghagotiachala in Kapasia upazila on Wednesday.