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2 killed, 4 injured in Pirojpur road accidents
Road accident accident
Two persons have been killed and four others injured in separate road accidents in Pirojpur, police said on Saturday.
The deceased were identified as Delwar Hossain Sardar, 60, a van driver from Bhandaria upazila, and Mia Md Faruk Hossain, 65, a former chairman of Dhanisafa union of Mathbaria upazila and a local Awami League member.
Delwar died after his van was hit by a tractor trolley on a bridge near Zila Parishad Market in Pirojpur's Bhandaria upazila on Saturday morning. He died in the impact of the crash, said Bhandaria Police Station OC Masumur Rahman Biswas.
"The body has been sent to the local hospital morgue for an autopsy. The killer vehicle has been seized and efforts are on to arrest its driver," the OC said.
On Friday evening, Faruk Hossain was killed in a head-on collision between a truck and a three-wheeler. Three other occupants of the three-wheeler and its driver sustained injuries in the accident, police said.
Pirojpur additional SP Mollah Azad Hossain said that the truck driver was arrested. "The body has been sent to the local hospital morgue for an autopsy," he said.