Three people were killed in road accidents in three districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

A schoolgirl was killed as a bus ran over her in Gazipur’s Tongi this morning (July 23, 2022).

At least 20 people were injured after a bus overturned in Bishwa Road area in the capital’s Jatrabari yesterday, UNB reports.

A 25-year-old tourist drowned and two others were injured while bathing in the Nikli haor in Kishoreganj yesterday morning. 

A 12-year-old girl drowned in the Chengi River at the Shutokarma area in Panchhari upazila of Khagrachhari today (July 22, 2022).

A youth drowned to death while bathing in Nikli haor in Kishoreganj this morning (July 22, 2022).

At least five workers were dead and another injured as a train hit a three-wheeler at Kagdi area under Kashiani upazila of Goplaganj last night (July 21, 2022).

A primary schoolteacher was killed in a road accident on his way to school in Dinajpur Sadar upazila yesterday.

At least six people were killed in a bus-microbus collision in Barishal and five people died after a train rammed a three-wheeler in Gopalganj yesterday.   

A head-on collision between a bus and a microbus on the Dhaka-Barishal highway left five people dead and 12 others injured today (July 21, 2022).

A former Eden Mahila College student died after she fell from a battery-run rickshaw in old Dhaka’s Bangshal area early this morning.

A toddler, her mother, and aunt were among six people who died after a bus rammed into an auto-rickshaw in Bakerganj, Barishal, yesterday afternoon.

A Mymensingh court today (July 20, 2022) placed the driver of the truck, which hit and killed three persons including a pregnant woman in Mymensingh's Trishal on July 16, on two day remand.

The country has witnessed the highest number of road crashes and deaths during the Eid-ul-Azha rush this year since 2016, exposing the poor state of road safety.

Three people died and 15 others were injured after a bus, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw, a pick-up and a covered van collided with one another on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria this afternoon (July 19, 2022).

The driver of the truck, which hit and killed three persons including a pregnant woman in Mymensingh’s Trishal, did not have valid license to drive heavy vehicles.

At least 398 people were killed and 778 were injured in 319 road crashes in just 15 days during the Eid rush.

The body of a 17-year-old train passenger was recovered yesterday from the Tulsiganga river in Joypurhat’s Akkelpur upazila, 14 hours after he fell off the train when it was crossing a bridge on Sunday evening.

Three more Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia during this year’s pilgrimage. Of them, two were female and one male.

A man died in a head-on collision between a private car and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Ishwardi upazila in Pabna district this morning (July 18, 2022).