Our correspondent from Pabna reports: Two people were killed and several others injured in a road accident at Patgram on Dhaka-Pabna highway under Bera upazila in the early morning of yesterday.

One dead was identified as Taslima Begum of Bonogram village while the identity of the other, a microbus driver, could not be known.

Sources said a passenger-loaded microbus left Bonogram for Bogra to join a bridle party. As soon as the microbus reached Patgram, a speedy truck hit the microbus killing two on the spot and wounding others.

The killer truck, however, managed to flee.

UNB from Sirajganj adds: Four people were killed and 19 others injured in separate road accidents in the district yesterday and on Saturday.

Yesterday, two siblings were killed and 19 others injured when a bus dashed a microbus at Baghabari on Bogra-Nagarbari highway yesterday morning.

The deceased were identified as Rubel, 20, and his sister Taslima, 15, of Khukni village in Shahjadpur upazilla.

Of the injured, seven were admitted to hospital.

On Saturday, a truck skidded off the Bogra-Nagarbari road at night, killing one Bimal, 20, on the spot.

Meanwhile, one Hasan was crushed under the wheels of a bus at Chalitabhanga on Kazipur-Dhunot road on Saturday night.