5 dead, 20 injured in three separate Rangpur road accidents

Two of the accidents occurred in Rangpur city, while the third occurred in Pirganj

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Five people have been killed and 20 others injured in three separate road accidents amid heavy fog in Rangpur.

All three incidents occurred on Friday morning.

A Pavel Express night coach headed for Kurigram crashed into a three-wheeler travelling in the opposite direction from Kaunia in the Nabdiganj Bazar area of Rangpur city around 9:30am, police and locals said.

Three passengers on the three-wheeler were killed on the spot. Two other people were seriously injured and sent to Rangpur Medical College Hospital for treatment. The bodies have been sent to the hospital morgue.

The victims have yet to be identified and police are working on it, said Abdul Kuddus, acting chief of Mahiganj Police Station in the Rangpur metropolitan area.

One person was killed and 18 others injured when a bus travelling from Satkhira in Rangpur’s Pirganj towards Kurigram crashed into another bus travelling in the opposite direction around 7:30am in front of the Baradargah Highway police Outpost on the Rangpur-Dhaka highway.

A pedestrian has been killed after they were rammed by a bus in Rangpur city’s Nazirerhat area.