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Three people have been killed in two separate road accidents in the district. Six more have been injured in these incidents.
The first accident took place on Monday morning in front of TMSS Medical College Hospital in the Thengamara area of Bogura Sadar on the Dhaka-Rangpur highway.
The two killed in it are Shafiqul Islam, 45, and Arafat, 16, of the Rampur area of Kahaloo upazila in Bogura. It was learnt initially that Arafat was a relative of Shafiqul.
Rais Uddin, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kundarhat Highway Police, told BSS that a CNG-run auto-rickshaw was going to TMSS Medical College Hospital with five passengers in the morning. When it reached the front of the hospital, an unidentified bus hit the auto-rickshaw. Shafiqul Islam and Arafat died on the spot and three others were injured. They have been rescued and admitted to hospital.
He further said family members have taken the bodies of the two deceased from the spot. Efforts are on to identify the bus.
Meanwhile, relatives were returning home in an ambulance with the bodies of Shafiqul and Arafat, who were killed in the first accident. On the way, an unidentified vehicle hit the ambulance carrying the bodies in the Ranirhat area of Bogura. Mosammat Khadiza Khatun, 52, who was in the ambulance, was killed. She was a resident of the Bandighi area of Bogura Sadar upazila. Three more people were injured in this incident, whose identities could not be known immediately.
Sergeant Md Sagar Ali of Kundarhat Highway Police Station told BSS the highway police are working to identify the vehicle that hit the ambulance. Legal action over the incident is under process.
