The goriest accident took place at 5:45am at Narasinghapur in Savar as a staff bus of NASA Group rammed into a staff bus of Hamim Group parked in front of its garment factory. Four people were killed on the spot and three others, including a woman, died after being rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).

Five of the victims were identified as Fazlur Rahman Farid, 28, Ali Noor Rahman Monir, 27, Ashraful alias Shah Alam, 22, and Liton Mollah, 25, and Shefali, 28. The identities of the rest two could not be known immediately. Three of them were co-workers at the Hamim Group's garment factory.

Around 20 other people injured in the accident were admitted to the DMCH and different clinics and hospitals in Savar.

Raju Ahmed, a supervisor of the factory, said, "I, along with Farid and Monir, just got down from the bus and started walking towards the factory. Suddenly I heard a screeching sound and ran fast, but my two companions fell under the bus and got killed."

Asked why they were working on the weekend, a worker of the factory, who also is a relative of one of the victims, said the factory management asked them to work from 6:00am on Friday in order to meet some production deadline.

Soon after the accident, agitated workers, who were already in the factory joined with those who arrived later, set both the buses on fire and barricaded the road for about an hour.

The mob attacked some 20 to 22 factories in the locality, ransacking the places and throwing brickbats, Savar police said. The police rushed to the spot in a few minutes and beat up the agitating workers to bring the situation under control. Meanwhile, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two of the demonstrators named Mehedi Hasan Miron and Khairul Islam for attacking the plants and later handed them over to Savar police.

Almost all the factories in the area suspended operations following the incidents.

ACCIDENTS IN DHAKA
Six people including four women garment workers were killed when a private car crashed into a CNG-run three-wheeler at around 4:30pm yesterday near Zia Colony under Cantonment Police Station in the city.

The mishap left two passengers of the three-wheeler, Kohinoor, 18, and Jasmine Akter, 27, and a roadside beggar named Faruque, 20, dead on the spot.

The remaining three -- driver of the three-wheeler Momtazuddin, 35, garment worker Sultana and her colleague, whose name could not be known immediately -- died after being admitted to the Combined Military Hospital, the police said.

They said the unfortunate garment workers in the three-wheeler were heading for their homes at Manikdi and Bhasantek from their Uttara workplace.

Passengers of the private car were also injured in the accident, the police said, but were not found at the spot. The police seized both the vehicles.

Three more people were killed yesterday in three other accidents.

At Gabtoli Bus Stand a bus ran over Apan Uddin, 65, when he was going to a mosque at around 5:00am, killing him on the spot.

Abdur Rouf Mia, 48, a worker of transportation firm Pick and Move, fell down on the road from a pick-up van when its driver was taking a turn at Bangla Motors at 9:45am. He died from the injuries later at the DMCH.

At Mohammadpur in the early hours yesterday, passers-by found Abdur Rahman, 70, seriously injured, lying in a pool of blood at a roadside. They rushed him to the DMCH, where he expired at around 3:00am.

All the bodies were sent to the DMCH morgue for autopsy.