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Road accidents kill 12, hurt 57

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Twelve people were killed and 57 others injured in road accidents in Rangpur, Comilla, Khulna and Dhaka yesterday.
Four people were killed in Rangpur, three each in Comilla and Khulna and the rest in the capital city.
Our Rangpur correspondent reported that a road accident on the Rangpur-Bogra highway left four people dead and seven others injured early yesterday.
Police said the accident occurred at about 4:30am when a Bogra bound stone-laden truck from Panchagarh skidded off the highway and fell into a ditch, leaving four fish traders dead on the spot and seven others injured.
Three of the dead were identified as Lal Miah, 35, and Sabu, 40, of Sonatala area and Badal, 45, of Alamdighee in Bogra. Identity of the other could not be known.
The injured were admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital. Driver and helper of the truck managed to flee.
In Comilla, three people were killed and 20 others injured in a bus-car collision at Kalakachua on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in the morning.
Police and witnesses said a Noakhali-bound private car from Sonargaon, Narayanganj, colllided head-on with a passenger bus coming from opposite direction at about 11 am.
Car passengers Sohel, 45, his wife Nipa and the driver, 30, whose identity could not be known, died on the spot.
Of the injured, four, identified as Rifat, Ripa, Nilu and Priti, were car passengers. They were sent to Dhaka for treatment. The rest were given first aid at a local hospital.
After the accident, traffic movement on the highway remained suspended for at least three hours.
Our staff correspondent from Khulna adds: Three people, including former ward commissioner of Khulna City Corporation, were killed and 30 others injured when a bus fell into a roadside ditch at Shalua under Dumuria upazila at about 3:00pm yesterday.
The dead are former KCC ward commissioner Faruque Ahmed, 50, Chand Miah, 60 and Minarul, 45.
Police said the accident took place when the bus tried to give passage to a rickshaw van. The injured are undergoing treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital.
According to our staff correspondent, two persons were killed in road accidents in the capital yesterday.
Mili Akhtar, 15, a student of Jurain Samirunnesa High School, was killed when a truck rammed her rickshaw from behind at Faridabad at about 11:00am.
Mili was returning to their Jurin residence at Sutrapur from Wiseghat area.
Locals rushed her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where she died at 1:30pm.
An unidentified pedestrain was run over and killed by a truck when he was crossing the road in front of Shishu Mela at Shyamoli at around 3:00pm.