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22 die in Tangail road crashes

5 more die in city

STAR REPORT
Twenty-two people died in Tangail and five others in Dhaka City in road accidents yesterday.
A Dhaka-bound passenger bus from Gaibandha drove into a ditch breaking the railing of Pouli Bridge in Kalihati upazila of Tangail at about 2:40pm, police and witnesses said.
The accident left 15 people killed on the spot and 32 others injured, according to private news agency
UNB.
Two of the injured died soon after admission to Tangail General Hospital while others were undergoing treatment there.
Another private news agency BDNEWS said six of the dead came from a family in Krishnanagar village of Sadullapur upazila in Gaibandha. They are Lal Mia, 60, his daughter Sadresa Begum, 35, her husband Dulal Mia, 40, their daughters Rita, 16, Asma, 10, and a three-month-
old child.
Identity of the remaining 16 could not be immediately known.
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and her son Sajib Wajed Joy on their way to Dhaka from Rangpur visited the spot.
Our Tangail correspondent reports that a Dhaka-bound night coach from Kurigram skidded off Tangail-Dhaka highway and fell into a ditch at Karatipara in Basail
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upazila early yesterday, killing five people on the spot and injuring 42 others.
Police and witnesses said the bus crashed into the ditch after it was hit by a gas cylinder-laden truck from behind at about 4:00am.
Two of the dead are Anwar Hossain, 35, and Amal Roy, 53.
Fire Brigade personnel rescued the injured passengers and sent them to Tangail General Hospital.
Meanwhile, at least five people died in road accidents in the capital yesterday, according to our staff correspondent.
Sources at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) said Golam Rahman, 65, injured in a road crash in Mirpur Section-10 in the early hours Tuesday, died at the hospital in the morning.
Abdul Malek, 51, a security guard of Janata Bank Farashganj branch, died from his wounds at the DMCH at 10:00am yesterday. He was knocked over by an autorickshaw in front of Sonali Bank Head Office in Motijheel commercial area at around 9:00pm Monday.
A businessman, identified as Ali Ashraf, 32, died when a Gazipur-bound bus rammed his motorbike from behind near Joarshahara BRTC bus depot on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at about 1:30pm.
A 35-year-old woman was hit by a speeding vehicle while crossing Dhaka-Narayanganj highway near Matuwail yesterday morning. She was rushed to the DMCH where the doctors declared her dead.
A contractor named Jahangir Alam, 35, was crushed under the wheels of a passenger bus near Rajlaxmi Complex in Uttara at about 10:00am.