For long, Billal Fakir, 40, and his family wanted a fourth child. On the day their wish was to be granted, fate betrayed them.

An SSC examinee was run over by a truck in Uttara yesterday, shortly after he came out of the examination centre.

Victims identified

Road accidents claimed at least 41 lives and injured numerous others across the country during the Eid holidays since Monday.

A passenger bus and a microbus collided head-on in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram

The accident occurred around 7:25am

A truck yesterday hit two female garment workers while they were crossing the road near the Chairmanbari area in Dhaka’s Banani, leaving one of them dead and the other injured.

Garment workers lifted the blockade from Banani's Chairmanbari today after around six hours of protest

Protesters blocked the expressway near Chairmanbari for four hours, movement resumed around 11:45am

Four-year-old Ibrahim Islam was walking to his school in Kushtia town with his grandmother around 8:00am on Sunday. Perhaps his mind was buzzing with excitement, thinking about the games he would play with his friends.

All the six deceased were passengers on the pick-up

The traffic on the expressway has now returned to normal

The chain of crashes began when a lorry struck a private car from behind on the Mawa-bound lane

Five people, including three of a family, were killed and two others injured in a road traffic accident at Pekua upazila in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

The accident took place on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Jagannathpur area around 10:00am

Four people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a pickup truck in Tangail’s Madhupur upazila early yesterday.

A man was killed and another injured when a battery-run rickshaw was crushed following a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Dhaka's Paltan area early yesterday.

The students of the university blocked Barishal-Kuakata-Barguna-Bhola regional routes protesting the accident

Six people were killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a truck on Itakhola-Monohardi road in Narsingdi’s Shibpur upazila yesterday afternoon.

At least 262 people were killed and 543 were injured in 251 road crashes in the 13 days centring the Eid-ul-Azha holiday, Road Safety Foundation said today