DHAKA: Six people, including two medical professors, were killed and five other doctors injured in separate road accidents in Dinajpur and Sirajganj districts Saturday due mainly to rash driving, sources said.

In Dinajpur, two physicians of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital and their micro driver were killed and five other doctors injured in a head-on collision between a truck and their microbus on the Dinajpur-Rajshahi Highway in Ghoraghat area.

The deceased are Professor Toyebuddin Ahmed, 55, and Professor Yusuf Ali of the Surgery Department and the driver of the microbus.

Police said a microbus, carrying a team of seven physicians of Dinajpur MCH, collided head-on with a truck coming from the opposite direction at about 8am, killing the two professors on the spot and injuring six others.

The injured were admitted to the local health complex where the driver succumbed to his injuries.

The doctors were going to Rajshahi by the microbus for joining a seminar when tragedy struck them down.

A pall of gloom descended on the hospital as the shocking news traveled in fast.

In Sirajganj, three people, including a father and his son, were killed as a rashly driven truck rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Bogra-Nagarbari highway in Raiganj upazilla on Saturday morning.

Two of the deceased were identified as Radhasham Kundo, 60, and his son Meghnad Kundo, 25, of Ghurka village in Raiganj. The identity of another dead, a man, could not be known immediately.  

“A Dhaka-bound truck crashed into the auto-rickshaw at about 7.30am at Ghurka, killing the three on the spot,” said Officer-in-charge of Hatikumrul Highway Thana Dinbandhu Das.
 
Police seized the killer truck but its driver and helper managed to flee the scene.

The bodies were sent to Sirajganj Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.

BDST: 1025, 19 July 2010
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