Published : 29 Jun 2025, 06:45 PM
Updated : 21 Aug 2026, 01:27 PM
Five people have been killed overnight in two separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Uttara and Jahangir Gate areas.
Three people were killed when a truck veered out of control and hit pedestrians on the side of the road in Uttara, said Golam Mostafa, chief of Uttara North Police Station.
The bus, which had come to Dhaka from Mymensingh, ran over the pedestrians around 2:30am near the Azampur Bus Stand, he said.
The dead were identified as Mohammad Jabed Alam Khan, 55, and his two nephews Amit, 23, and Naimul Haque, 32.
Amit was a student at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Naimul worked at a private company, and Jabed was a trader by profession.
Jabed hailed from Khilkhet, Mostofa said.
The three were headed home after visiting the body of Jabed's older brother at a local hospital, he said.
The truck has been seized and the driver arrested, he added.
Two motorcycle passengers were killed on the road from Bijoy Sarani to Jahangir Gate when their vehicle was rammed by a microbus around 3am, said Abdullah Al Mamun, chief of Kafrul Police Station.
The motorcycle was headed towards Jahangir Gate while the microbus was taking a U-turn in front of the Chief Advisor’s Office.
The two motorcycle passengers have yet to be identified. The driver of the microbus fled on the vehicle after the accident.
