‘502 killed in 464 accidents in October’

At least 502 people were killed and 838 were injured in road and railway accidents across the country in October, said a report prepared by Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.

Of them 437 died in 429 road accidents while 53 people died in 29 railway accidents, 12 died and 2 were injured in 6 waterway accidents, the report said.

At least 144 people died and 76 others were injured in some 131 motorbike accidents across the country last month which is 30.53 per cent of the total accidents and 33.56 per cent of the total fatalities.

A press release signed by Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury, secretary general of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, informed this on Friday (November 10). The organization published the report on Friday after analysing accident reports published in the country's national and regional dailies and online news portals during the period.