Separate road accidents claim 6 lives in 3 districts

 At least six people, including three postal department employees, were killed in three separate road accidents in Dhaka, Panchagarh and Habiganj on Thursday.
In Dhaka, Shafiqul Islam, 55, son of Nizamuddin, was killed after a speeding vehicle hit him while he was crossing a road in Azampur under Uttarkhan Police Station around 6am.
His sister-in-law Rubia Akter said Shafiqul arrived from his village in Jhenaidah around 4am. After getting off at Azampur in Uttara, he was hit while crossing the road. He was declared dead after being taken to the hospital, said DMCH Police outpost in-charge Inspector Habibur Rahman, adding that the body was kept at the hospital morgue for an autopsy.
In Panchagarh, two tenth-grade madrasah students were killed and another was critically injured when their motorcycle hit a roadside tree in Shahapara area of Boda in the morning. The deceased were Sadik, 17, son of Ataur Rahman of Sakowa, and Rahat, 16, son of Mizanur Rahman of Fulbari. They were returning from private tuition when their motorcycle lost control. Boda Police station Inspector (Investigation) Rezwanul Haque Mondal said the bodies would be handed over to the families after legal procedures.
In Habiganj, three Bangladesh Postal Department employees were killed around 2:30am when their covered van, carrying government mail and parcels from Sylhet to Dhaka, rammed into a stationary stone-laden truck on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Madhabpur.