The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Sirajganj

At least eight people were killed and seven others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Bogra Highway at Ghurka Beltola area of the district on Wednesday night.

Police said, the accident occurred when a truck hit a straw-loaded truck from behind and both the trucks skidded off the roadside ditch leaving seven persons dead on the spot. Another person succumbed to his injuries at Sirajganj General Hospital.

The deceased were identified as truck driver Lal Mia, 40, Ershad,30, Ratan, 32 of Dariyapur village under Shahzadpur upazila, Rezaul, 27, Rahim Uddin,35, Jahangir, 30, Moslem, 34, of Kalkhamari village under Shahzadpur upazila of the district and Faisal,60, of Shariatpur district. The injured persons were admitted to the Sirajganj General Hospital. Police seized both the trucks. A case was filed in this connection.

Meanwhile, two alleged burglars were killed and two others injured in a mob beating in Uttar Barawlia area under Sitakunda upazila Chittagong early in the morning today.

The dead were Mohammad Harun and Zahed of Fultala village under Sitakunda upazila, police and local sources said.

The identity of the injured, who were admitted to the local health complex, could not be known immediately.

The sources said local people and security guards of an under-construction building caught the four when they entered the project site to steal.

At one stage, the people and security guards gave them a good beating. Two died on the spot and two others were injured. Ayesha Begum, a relative of Harun, went to the local police station to file a murder case in connection with the killing. She claimed that a group of local people called Harun and three others at a solitary place and beat them in a planned way with the help of security guards because of previous enmity.