The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Brahmanbaria

A minor boy was killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Sylhet highway under Sarail Upazila of the district on Friday.

Police said the dead was identified as Sumon Mia, son of Abdul Hakim of Islamabad village in Noagao Union. The accident occurred when a Dhaka-Sylhet bound truck ran over the boy while he was crossing the road. He died on the spot. Police handed over the body to the victim family. A case was filed with Sarail police station in this connection.

Meanwhile, Two persons were killed and four others injured in two separate road accidents at different places in Rangpur and Thakurgaon districts on Friday, Police sources said. Five persons were injured when a Rangpur-bound truck from Bogra rammed into a roadside shop at Zamtola point on the Bogra-Rangpur highway under Pirganj upazila in Rangpur.

Of them, injured Tazul Islam, 30, son of Abdus Sohban of Zamtola village of the upazila succumbed to his injuries on way to Rangpur Medical College Hospital and injured Osman Gani, 30, Manjila, 6, Abdul Mannan, 30, and Sohel, 5, are undergoing treatment there.

In another accident, one Abul Hossain, 50, son of late Islam Uddin of village Mohishmari in Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon, was killed on the spot when a minibus hit him at Shimultoli point in the upazila.

Two separate cases were filed in these connections with the respective police stations, the sources said.