A 55-year-old doctor was killed and three others were injured in a head-on collision between two bikes in Rajshahi’s on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Dr Kofil Uddin, a resident of Gopalhati village of Puthia upazila. He worked at a health centre in Durgapur upazila.
However, the identities of the injured are yet to be known.
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The accident occurred when the two bikes collided head-on near the Gopalhati petrol pump on the busy Dhaka-Rajshahi highway of the upazila on Tuesday afternoon, leaving four people injured, said Mofakarul Islam, officer-in-charge of Paba Highway Police Station.
Dr Kofil was rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Road accidents have become a regular affair in Bangladesh.
At least 2,329 people, including 291 women and 381 children, were killed and 4,361 others injured in 2,159 road accidents across the country in the first half of the current year, says a new report by the Road Safety Foundation.
The road accidents occurred on highways, and national, inter-district and regional roads between January 1 and June 30 across the country.
Source: United News of Bangladesh