holiday accidents
Courtesy New Age 14/9/10 Staff Correspondent
At least 41 people, including two policemen and an Air Force sergeant, were killed and 305 injured in separate road accidents in Bagerhat, Rangpur, Manikganj, Narsigndi, Noakhali, Faridpur, Gazipur, Khulna, Kushtia, Lalmonirhat, Jhenaidah, Dhaka and Mymensingh between Thursday and Monday. Government Eid holiday spanned three days beginning Friday.
The New Age correspondent in Kushtia said four people, including a child, Air Force sergeant Ashraful Islam, 48, and bus driver's assistant Ujjwal Ali, 30, were killed and around 30 injured as a bus headed for Pragpur skidded off the Bheramara–Pragpur Road into a ditch at Mahishadora about 1:00pm on Monday.
The injured were admitted to Bheramara and Daulatpur health complexes while the bodies were sent to the Kushtia General Hospital morgue for post-mortem examinations.
Batiyaghata police subinspector Emdadul Haque, 44, was killed on the Khulna-Bagerhat Highway to the west of the Khan Jahan Ali Bridge at Batiyaghata on Monday morning when a bus hit his motorcycle.
The body was sent to the Khulna Medical College Hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination.
The correspondent in Manikganj said six were killed and 110 injured in separate accidents on the Dhaka–Aricha Road at Dhamrai and in Manikganj during the Eid holiday.
Sources said two were killed and 40 injured when a bus headed for Gopalganj plunged into a roadside ditch at Balitha of Dhamrai in Dhaka on Monday morning.
Twenty people, meanwhile, were injured when a human hauler headed for Baniajuri hit a van from behind at the Tora cross bridge of Ghior about 2:00pm.
Four people were killed and 50 injured in separate road accidents at Golora, Muljan, Tepra and Aricha on the Eid holiday.
The New Age correspondent said two people, including minor boy Mohammad Arif, 7, were killed and 30 injured in a road accident at Badhal Bazar on the Bagerhat–Pirojpur Highway in Kachua in Bagerhat on Sunday.
The police and hospital sources said the accident had taken place when a bus headed for Bagerhat skidded off the road. The two were killed on the spot. The injured people were sent to hospital for treatment.
In Bogra, three people were killed and five injured in separate accidents on Sunday.
The Lalmonirhat correspondent said vegetable vendor Lakhmi Kanto Barmon, 42, was killed as a train hit him when he was crossing the railway at the Lalmonirhat railway station about 10:20am on Sunday.
The correspondent in Jhenaidah said vegetable trader Minarul Islam, 45, was killed as a truck laden with vegetables headed for Dhaka overturned on the Dhaka–Khulna Highway at Kaliganj Sunday afternoon, killing Minarul on the spot and inuring six.
The Rangpur correspondent said three were killed and 26 injured when a coach skidded off the Dhaka–Rangpur Highway and overturned amid torrential rain at Pirganj on Saturday morning.
The correspondent in Noakhali said three were killed and seven injured in separate road accidents near Chatkhil on Friday and Mirwarishpur at Sonaimuri on Saturday.
The Sonaimuri police said Palash, 24, was killed and four were injured when a pickup van collided head-on with CNG-run auto rickshaw at Besur Dokan of Sonaimuri about 2:00pm on Saturday.
The Chatkhil police said expatriate Raju, 24, and Shamim Ahmed, 25, were killed on the Ramganj–Sonaimuri Road at Chatkhil about 3:00pm when a microbus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on.
The correspondent in Faridpur said assistant subinspector of police Sayeem, 36, a resident of Maksedpur in Gopalganj, was killed in a road accident in the Bhanga crossing on the Dhaka–Khulna Highway on Friday morning.
According to the police, the accident took place about 8:00am when a vehicle hit his motorbike, killing him on the spot.
In Narsingdi, nine were killed and 20 injured when a bus and a pickup van collided head-on on the Dhaka–Sylhet Highway Thursday afternoon.
The police and hospital sources said four died on the spot and five died in Narsingdi General Hospital.
The accident took place at Shirishti Ghar at Shibpur about 2:00pm.
The correspondent in Mymensingh said garment workers Dulal Miah, 38, and Hinduri Begum, 35, were killed and 10 injured in accidents on the Dhaka–Mymensingh Highway at Bhaluka in the morning when a small truck carrying apparel workers from Dhaka hit a roadside tree.
In Keraniganj, three people were killed and 40 injured in a head-on collision between two buses at Kadampur of Dakkhin Keraniganj on Thursday evening.
One of the deceased was bus driver Sohel. The identities of the other bus driver and a woman aged about 30 years could not be immediately established.
Witnesses said a bus headed for Mawa and another bus coming from the opposite direction collided head-on about 6:00pm while another bus hit the bus headed for Mawa from behind at the same time, killing three on the spot.
Traffic on the Dhaka-Mawa Road had been suspended for an hour and a half after the accident, causing sufferings to the thousands of people headed home for Eid celebrations.
The correspondent in Gazipur said trader Anwar Hossain, 35, and rickshaw-puller Habibur Rahman, 45, were killed and 21 injured in separate road accidents.
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