The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

A schoolgirl and an SSC examinee were killed and three other examinees injured in road accidents in Comilla and Barguna on Thursday.

In Comilla, an SSC examinee was killed and three others were injured when a bus dashed their auto-rickshaw at Shahidnagar area in Daudkandi upazila on Dhaka-Chittagong highway Thursday morning. Police said the Dhaka-bound passenger bus hit the three-wheeler at about 9:30 am when the four examinees were going to the Subal Aftab High School centre, leaving them critically injured. The four injured - Jesmin, 16, Fatema alias Kakoli, 15, Rabiul, 16, and Shanto, 15, - were first rushed to a local hospital and then shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where Jesmin died shortly after admission.

In Barguna, a schoolgirl was crushed under the wheels of a motorcycle in Khejurtala area of Sadar upazila Thursday afternoon. Witnesses said the speeding motorcycle ran over Sabina, 7, daughter of Masud, 7, of Betbunia village in the upazila and also a class one student of a local primary school, at the spot at about 2:30pm while she was returning home.

She was rushed to the Sadar hospital where she succumbed after a few minutes.

Local people after a hot chase caught the motorcycle driver and handed him over to the police.

Separate cases were filed with the police.