Victims identified
Road accidents claimed at least 41 lives and injured numerous others across the country during the Eid holidays since Monday.
A passenger bus and a microbus collided head-on in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram
The accident occurred around 7:25am
A truck yesterday hit two female garment workers while they were crossing the road near the Chairmanbari area in Dhaka’s Banani, leaving one of them dead and the other injured.
Garment workers lifted the blockade from Banani's Chairmanbari today after around six hours of protest
Protesters blocked the expressway near Chairmanbari for four hours, movement resumed around 11:45am
Four-year-old Ibrahim Islam was walking to his school in Kushtia town with his grandmother around 8:00am on Sunday. Perhaps his mind was buzzing with excitement, thinking about the games he would play with his friends.
All the six deceased were passengers on the pick-up
The chain of crashes began when a lorry struck a private car from behind on the Mawa-bound lane
Five people, including three of a family, were killed and two others injured in a road traffic accident at Pekua upazila in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.
The accident took place on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Jagannathpur area around 10:00am
Four people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a pickup truck in Tangail’s Madhupur upazila early yesterday.
A man was killed and another injured when a battery-run rickshaw was crushed following a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Dhaka's Paltan area early yesterday.
The students of the university blocked Barishal-Kuakata-Barguna-Bhola regional routes protesting the accident
Six people were killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a truck on Itakhola-Monohardi road in Narsingdi’s Shibpur upazila yesterday afternoon.
At least 262 people were killed and 543 were injured in 251 road crashes in the 13 days centring the Eid-ul-Azha holiday, Road Safety Foundation said today
At least 708 people were killed and 2,426 injured in 683 road crashes last month, Bangladesh Jatri Klyan Samity said today
The Road Transport and Highways Division has called a meeting tomorrow with the divisional commissioners and deputy inspector general of ranges to find out why the number of road crashes cannot be controlled.
