At least three people were killed in separate road accidents in Pirganj and Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon.

The accidents occurred on Friday night and on Saturday morning.

In Sadar upazila, a man named Mamunur Rashid, 35, was injured when a Gorea-bound pickup crashed his motorcycle from behind at Manabkalyanpara in Sadar upazila around 11:30AM on Friday.

He was taken to Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital where doctors declared him dead, said Md Shahidur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station.

In Pirganj, Tojammin Shahnaj Rebu, 48, an assistant teacher at a local government primary school died on the spot and Moktarul Islam, 65, was injured when a minibus hit a battery-run rickshaw carrying them near Pirganj intersection around 8:30AM.

Tajul Islam, OC of Pirganj Police Station, said a 65-year-old man sustained injuries after a motorbike hit him while he was crossing a road at Jamtoli in Pirganj municipality area on Friday night.

He succumbed to his injuries at Dinajpur Medical College Hospital on the same night, said the OC.