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Five people have been killed overnight in two separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Uttara and Jahangir Gate areas.
Three people were killed when a truck veered out of control and hit pedestrians on the side of the road in Uttara, said Golam Mostafa, chief of Uttara North Police Station, reports bdnews24.com.
The bus, which had come to Dhaka from Mymensingh, ran over the pedestrians around 2:30am near the Azampur Bus Stand, he said.
The dead were identified as Jabed Alam Khan, 55, and his two nephews Amit, 23, and Naimul Haque, 32.
Amit was a student at Ahsan Ullah University, Naimul worked at a private company, and Jabed was currently unemployed.
Jabed hailed from Khilkhet, Mostofa said.
The three were headed home after seeing a relative at a local hospital, he said.
The truck has been seized and the driver arrested, he added.
Two motorcycle passengers were killed on the road from Bijoy Sarani to Jahangir Gate when their vehicle was rammed by a microbus around 3am, said Abdullah Al Mamun, chief of Kafrul Police Station.
The motorcycle was headed towards Jahangir Gate while the microbus was taking a U-turn in front of the Chief Advisor’s Office.
The two motorcycle passengers have yet to be identified. The driver of the microbus fled on the vehicle after the accident.