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Staff Reporter

At least 23 people were killed and about 50 others injured in road accidents on Thursday and Friday at different places of the country.

In Comilla eleven people were killed and 25 others injured in two road accidents in Debidwar and Sadar South upazilas of the district on Thursday.

In a fatal accident in the afternoon, eight people were killed and 25 others injured when a bus fell into a roadside canal on the Comilla-Brahmanbaria Highway at Sangchail village in Debidwar upazila.

The deceased were identified as Helal Uddin, 28, his wife Sita Begum, 22, Ruby Akhter, 6, Nargis Akhter, 75, and her son Kamal Uddin, 22, Moslem, 28, Harun, 30, and Bashir, 30. The accident occurred at about 2:15pm when a Brahmanbaria-bound bus of Sugandha Paribahan from Comilla fell into the ditch beside the road when its driver lost control over the steering wheel of the vehicle.

Six people died on the spot and two others on way to the hospital.

Ten seriously injured persons have been admitted to the Upazila Health Complex.

In another accident half an hour later, a physician couple and a driver were killed as an ambulance carrying them collided head-on with a covered van on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Shuagazi in Sadar South upazila of the district.

The deceased were identified as Tahmina, 28, and his husband Apu, 32, both physicians of Chowddagram General Hospital, and ambulance driver Kamal, 35.

All three were burnt to death when the ambulance caught fire as it fell into a ditch after the collision. They were returning to the district town from Chowddagram.

A freedom fighter was crushed under the wheels of a bus at Rajarampur in Sadar upazila on Chapainawabganj-Rajshahi road on Thursday.

The dead was identified as Abdur Rashid, 55.

Police said the speeding bus ran over the victim when he was crossing the road at 4:30pm. The body was sent to the hospital morgue for autopsy.

Three people were killed when a pick-up van and a tempo collided head on at Ghatihata crossing on Dhaka-Sylhet highway Thursday night.

Police said tempo driver Harun Mia, 35, and a passenger Shafiqul Islam, 30, died on the spot while another passenger Kawser, 35, died at Sadar Hospital.

In Habiganj a woman was killed and 20 others were injured in a road accident at Biramchar in Sadar upazila Friday.

Police said the accident took place as a Sylhet-bound bus from the capital fell into a roadside ditch while giving way to another bus coming from the opposite direction.

The accident on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway left Jahanara Begum, 50, bus passenger, dead on the spot and injured others at noon.

Two of the injured were admitted to Sadar Hospital, while others given first aid at Chunarughat Health Complex and Sadar Hospital.

Four people were killed and seven injured in separate road accidents in Sirajganj district on Friday.

In the first accident, an unidentified youth was killed when he fell on the road from the rooftop of a Dhaka-bound bus at Golchattar of west side of Jamuna Bridge at about 5:30am.

In another accident, another unidentified young man was crushed under the wheels of a Bogra-bound truck on Dhaka-Bogra Highway at Konabari in Kamarkhanda upazila at 10:30am.

The victim met the tragic end of his life while crossing the road.

At the same time in Sirajganj, an unidentified man was killed and seven others injured in a collision between two buses at Nalka, west side connecting road of the Jamuna Bridge.

Of the injured five were admitted to Sadar Hospital.

Yet in another accident, a man was ran over by a truck near Baghabari Bridge in Shahjadpur upazila at about 11:00am.

The dead was identified as Amir Ali of Bera upazila in Pabna district.

Separate cases were filed with respective police stations.