Six youths were killed on Tuesday when a bus rammed a human haulier at Gorhmati Botdhor area under Borhaigram upazila in Natore.
Police said the accident took place around 12pm on the Natore-Pabna highway when a Rangpur-bound BRTC bus rammed the smaller vehicle of the youths.
The human haulier was part of a procession brought out to celebrate the festival of Eid-ul-Fitr by a group of local youths.
Identity of the deceased is yet to be found.
Following the accident, agitated residents of the area blocked the road and vandalised a second BRTC bus and an ambulance, Bonparha Highway Police Station Inspector Din-e-Alam told reporters.
Police had arrested the bus driver responsible for the accident, along with the bus, from Bonparha area, he said.
Alam said four of the youths died on the spot while the other two died on their way to hospital.
Police were trying to control the situation, he added.
3 children killed in Keraniganj
In another incident, three children were killed and five others were injured as a bus and an auto-rickshaw collided head-on in Rajendrapur area in Dhaka's Keraniganj.
Police said the accident took place around 12pm Tuesday.
The deceased were identified as Milon, 10, Abdul Baten, 14, and Sajib, 10.
South Keraniganj Police Station OC Shakhawat Hossain told bdnews24.com the Maoa-bound Sirajdikhan Paribahan bus collided head-on with the auto-rickshaw killing the first two minors on the spot.
Sajib was declared dead by the doctors after he was taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The injured, Kawsar, 30, Sharmin, 25, Farhad, 12, Shahin, 10, and Aviron had been sent to the Mitford Hospital earlier.
But later they were admitted to the DMCH and the Dhaka National Orthopaedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Institute, better known as Pangu Hospital, OC Hossain said.
All the deceased were passengers of the auto-rickshaw.
The police official said they seized the bus but the driver somehow managed to flee.
1 dead in Hathajari
A woman, Yasmin Akter, 35, was killed on Tuesday after the auto-rickshaw carrying her hit a roadside pole in Hathajari's Katirhat area in Chittagong.
She, wife of one Abdur Rahman of Dholoi village of the upazila's Katirhat, was badly injured in the accident.
Doctors at the Chittagong Medical College Hospital declared her dead as she was taken there, a CMCH Police Camp constable, Ismail Hossain, told
Police said the accident took place around 12pm on the Natore-Pabna highway when a Rangpur-bound BRTC bus rammed the smaller vehicle of the youths.
The human haulier was part of a procession brought out to celebrate the festival of Eid-ul-Fitr by a group of local youths.
Identity of the deceased is yet to be found.
Following the accident, agitated residents of the area blocked the road and vandalised a second BRTC bus and an ambulance, Bonparha Highway Police Station Inspector Din-e-Alam told reporters.
Police had arrested the bus driver responsible for the accident, along with the bus, from Bonparha area, he said.
Alam said four of the youths died on the spot while the other two died on their way to hospital.
Police were trying to control the situation, he added.
3 children killed in Keraniganj
In another incident, three children were killed and five others were injured as a bus and an auto-rickshaw collided head-on in Rajendrapur area in Dhaka's Keraniganj.
Police said the accident took place around 12pm Tuesday.
The deceased were identified as Milon, 10, Abdul Baten, 14, and Sajib, 10.
South Keraniganj Police Station OC Shakhawat Hossain told bdnews24.com the Maoa-bound Sirajdikhan Paribahan bus collided head-on with the auto-rickshaw killing the first two minors on the spot.
Sajib was declared dead by the doctors after he was taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The injured, Kawsar, 30, Sharmin, 25, Farhad, 12, Shahin, 10, and Aviron had been sent to the Mitford Hospital earlier.
But later they were admitted to the DMCH and the Dhaka National Orthopaedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Institute, better known as Pangu Hospital, OC Hossain said.
All the deceased were passengers of the auto-rickshaw.
The police official said they seized the bus but the driver somehow managed to flee.
1 dead in Hathajari
A woman, Yasmin Akter, 35, was killed on Tuesday after the auto-rickshaw carrying her hit a roadside pole in Hathajari's Katirhat area in Chittagong.
She, wife of one Abdur Rahman of Dholoi village of the upazila's Katirhat, was badly injured in the accident.
Doctors at the Chittagong Medical College Hospital declared her dead as she was taken there, a CMCH Police Camp constable, Ismail Hossain, told
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