Two people, including a female SSC examinee, were killed and 15 others injured in separate road crashes in Haluaghat and Bhaluka upaizlas of the district on Monday.
Abdul Haq, officer-in-charge of Haluaghat Police Station, said when SSC examine Merina Nokrek, daughter of Gagan Majhi, was returning home at East Gobrapukur from Dhara High School examination centre on a rickshaw van.
Her long scarf got tangled in one of the wheel of the rickshaw van and fastened tightly around her neck when she reached at Sasharpar in Haluaghat upazila in the afternoon, leaving her dead on the spot.
In another incident, Babu Mia, a bus driver was killed and 15 people were injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Meherabari in Bhaluka upazila in the afternoon, said Maruf Rahman, sub-inspector and in-charge of Bharadoba Highway police camp.
