Four people were killed and seven injured in road accidents in the capital on Sunday and Monday.
Among the deceased, three were identified as Golam Hawlader, 18, Samir Uddin, 55, and Khormuz Hossain, 35. The other could not be identified immediately.
At Mirpur, two people were killed when a bus got on the footpath near A-type colony of Mirpur-1 on Monday afternoon, the police said.
Police said Khormuz Hossain and an unnamed man died on the spot when a Mirpur-1 bound bus hit them on the footpath at around 3:30pm.
Police seized the bus but its driver and his assistant managed to get away.
At Bijaynagar, hotel businessman Samir Uddin was killed when his motorcycle collided head-on with another motorbike in front of water tank at around 12:30pm.
Critically injured Samir was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where he died at around 1:30pm.
Samir Uddin, owner of Hotel Bijaynagar, lived at Purana Paltan.
Major (retired) Fakhrul Islam, manager of Hotel Bijaynagar, told reporters that Samir was going to Kaptan Bazar riding his Pulsar brand motorbike on business purpose.
On Sunday, a Bangladesh Railway employee Golam Hawlader was killed when a motorbike knocked down him in front of Railyway Bhaban near Secretariat Bhaban at around 7:30pm.
Police failed to seize the motorbike.
Besides, at least five passengers were injured as a bus plunged into a water-filled roadside ditch at Ashkona Purbapara under Dakkhinkhan Sunday morning with more than a dozen of passengers.
Witnesses said the airport-bound mini-bus from Dhupadiya skidded off into the ditch at about 6:30am.
The passengers were rescued without major injuries as the bus took few minutes to sink in the hyacinth-filled water-body, fire service and civil defense director general Brigadier General Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah told New Age.
The Dakkhinkhan police officer-in-charge, Lokman Hekim, told New Age on Monday that no one claimed the ownership of the bus and it was not confirmed whether it was driven by a driver or his assistant.
Informed, fire-fighters, along with divers, started rescue-operation at about 7:00am.
Two police wreckers were able to salvage the bus in the afternoon, the police said.
Communications minister Syed Abul Hossain, after visiting the spot at about 11:00am on Sunday, had told reporters, ‘Heavy vehicles are not allowed to ply the narrow road but it plied the road without permission.’
Home minister Sahara Khatun, also lawmaker of the constituency, visited the spot at around 9:45am.
When the home minister’s attention was drawn to the narrow and vulnerable road, Sahara said, ‘Though the road was constructed in my constituency, it is under the communications ministry. I am lobbying so that the road can be reconstructed.’
But, the communications minister told reporters on the spot that the road was under the local government and rural development ministry.
-With New Age input
