STAR REPORT

At least six people were killed and 52 others were injured in separate road accidents in Netrokona, Kushtia, and Sylhet yesterday.

In Netrokona, a woman and her two daughters were killed when a passenger bus of Mohua Paribahan hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw at the Chollisha Bus Stand intersection on the Netrokona-Mymensingh highway around 11:30am, said Hafizul Islam, additional superintendent of police.

The deceased are Nur Jahan, 45, a resident of Amli Keshabpur village in Sadar upazila, and her daughters Smriti Akter, 15, and Iti Akter, 12.

Following the accident, locals temporarily blocked the highway and staged a protest.

In Kushtia, at least one person was killed and 32 were injured when a bus carrying army recruits from Bogura Cantonment collided head-on with a passenger coach in Talbaria area of Mirpur upazila around noon.

The deceased could not be identified immediately, said OC Abu Obayed of Chourhas Highway Police Station.

In Sylhet, two persons were killed and 15 injured when a coach of Saint Martin Paribahan hit a stationary bus of Jatayat Paribahan on Sylhet-Dhaka Highway in Osmaninagar upazila around 6:30am, UNB reported.

The deceased are driver Sohel, 30, and his helper Emon, 20, of the stationary bus. They were repairing the bus when the accident happened, said OC Abu Taher Dewan of Sherpur Highway Police Station.