<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Six people have died in separate road accidents in Mymensingh, Tangail and Chattogram districts.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Mymensingh, a couple died as a bus ran over them while they were crossing the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Bhaluka on Friday night.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The deceased were identified as Abbas Ali Dewan, 60, and his wife Hazera Khatun, 50, residents of Kalmegha village in Sakhipur Upazila of Tangail.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to police, Abbas Ali and his wife came to visit his granddaughter’house.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A bus of Shahjalal Paribahan knocked down the couple when they were crossing the road, leaving them dead on the spot.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shah Kamal Akanda, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Bhaluka Model Police Station, said the highway police recovered the bodies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police seized the bus but the driver managed to escape.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Tangail, two people were killed in a road accident in Pauli area of Kalihati upazila on Saturday morning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. However, police said that the deceased were the driver and helper of the covered van.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mir Mohammad Sajedur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge of Elenga Highway Police Outpost, said a Dhaka-bound covered van crashed into a lorry on the south side of Pauli Bridge on the Dhaka-North Bengal highway.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The front part of the covered van was smashed, leaving the driver and the helper of the covered dead on the spot, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Chattogram, two people were killed and two others injured in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Chattogram-Khagrachhari highway in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram on Saturday noon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The deceased were identified as Abdul Motaleb Tuku, 70, and Md. Absar,55 of Hathazari upazila. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nazirhat Highway Police Station Sub-Inspector Anisul Islam said the injured were taken to a hospital.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>