Two people, including a freedom fighter, were killed in separate road accidents in Gopalganj on Wednesday.
The accidents occurred at Ghonapara and Bijoypasha areas of Gopalganj Sadar upazila on the Dhaka-Khulna highway.
The deceased were identified as freedom fighter Abdul Sattar Sardar, 85, of Madaripur, and Obaidur Khandaker, 35, of Gopalganj Sadar.
Officer-in-Charge of Bhatiapara Highway Police Station SM Muntasir Mahmud said Abdul Sattar was travelling in a pickup van to his son's residence in Mongla when it lost control and hit another pickup from behind near an eye hospital in Ghonapara.
He was taken to Gopalganj 250-bed General Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
In the other accident, a speeding truck ran over Obaidur near Bijoypasha bus stand, killing him on the spot.
Police recovered his body and sent it to the hospital morgue.
-AJM