Dhaka: Twenty-two people were killed in road accidents in several districts in three days during the Eid vacation.

Nine of them were killed in Mymensingh and Comilla on Tuesday while 10 in Rangpur, Chuadanga and Lakshmipur on Friday and three in Manikganj and Panchagrah on Saturday.

In Mymensingh, eight people were killed and 12 others injured as a human hauler, locally known as Leguna, tumbled into a roadside ditch at Churkhai Beltali on Mymensingh-Dhaka highway in Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.

Abdur Rahman, senior officer of Mymensingh Fire Station, said the Mymensingh-bound human hauler from Dhaka fell into the ditch at about 7:30am after its driver lost control over the steering, leaving five people dead on the spot and 15 others injured.

The injured were taken to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where three of them succumbed to their injuries.

In Comilla, an unknown person was killed and eight others were injured as a bus went down a roadside ditch at Khadghar on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Chandina upazila on Tuesday morning.

In Rangpur, six members of a family were killed as a bus crashed into a battery-run human-hauler they were travelling in at Jhigatala in Taraganj upazila on Friday afternoon.

Five of the deceased are Dulali, 32, Shahnaz Parvin, 23, Shahidul Islam, 40, Motasin Hossain, 6, and Rawshan Ara, 50. The victims hailed from Madhypara of Jaldhaka upazila in Nilphamari.

Taraganj police officer-in-charge Abdul Latif said the Rangpur-bound bus from Syedpur hit the three-wheeler in the area at about 5:45pm, killing the six on the spot.

The tragedy struck the victims while returning to their home from Rangpur, he said.

In Chuadanga, three teenagers were killed and two others injured as a shallow engine-run human hauler overturned after crashing into a tree in Alamdanga upazila on Friday afternoon.

Witnesses said the human hauler hit the tree by Chuadanga-Kushtia highway at Dambolpur Mor at about 5:30pm after its driver lost control over the steering.

The accident left Prince dead on the spot and four others injured. Sajal and Emon died at hospital.

The accident struck the victims while they were returning to Alamdanga from Poradah in Kushtia, said officer-in-charge of Alamganga Police Station Akram Hossain.

Yet in another accident in Lakshmipur, Neon, 16, son of Abdur Rahim of Denayetpur in Raipur upazila, was killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw hit a motorcycle in Raipur bus terminal in the evening.

In Manikganj, two drivers were killed and 20 people injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Golra on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Saturia upazila early Saturday.

Officer-in-charge of Golra Highway Police Station Nurul Alam said the bus of ‘Golden Line Paribahan’ was going to Barisal from Gabtali in the capital at night.

When the bus reached Golra, it collided with a vegetable-laden truck at about 1:00am, leaving bus driver Shahin and truck driver Jahangir dead on the spot and 20 people injured.

In Panchagrah, a bank official was killed as his motorcycle fell into a roadside ditch in Amarkhana in Sadar upazila on Saturday.

The deceased was identified as Abu Sayeed Reza, principal officer of Uttara Bank in the capital and a resident of Gobindaganj upazila in Gaibandha.

Witnesses said the accident happened when Sayeed was going to Tentulia in the afternoon.

Locals rescued him and took him to Sadar upazila where doctors declared him dead.