A young man was killed after his bike veered off the road and plunged into a roadside ditch in Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria on Monday night, police said. The deceased was identified as Billal Khandakar, 22, son of Yusuf Miah of Sadar upazila. His friend, Tamal, 30, president of Nasirnagar Government College Chhatra League, has been hospitalised. Read: 6 kids drown in 3 districts The accident occurred at 11.30pm Monday when Billal lost control of his speeding bike, police said. The crash left both Billal and his friend severely injured. Locals rushed them to Upazila Health Complex. Later, they were transferred to Zila Sadar hospital, where Billal succumbed to his injuries around 12.45am. Read: Khulna bus operators' stir from Wednesday Tamal is battling for his life at a hospital in Dhaka, where he has been shifted. The body has been kept in the hospital morgue for an autopsy, said ASM Atiqur Rahman, an inspector at Nasirnagar police station.

A 35-year-old Baul singer was killed and three others were injured when a speeding truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in which they were travelling on the Cumilla-Sylhet highway on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Jamal Hossain, a resident of Dhaka's Kachukhet area. The injured have been identified as Muhammad Alamin, 37, Yeasmin Mia, 28, and auto driver Siddique Mia, 45. Read: 4 brothers killed in Cox’s Bazar road crash, 5 injured The accident occurred on the highway in the Urshiura area of the district's Sadar upazila around 8.30pm. "The truck hit the auto at a high speed, leaving all its four occupants injured," said Shahjalal Alam, officer-in-charge of Khatihata Highway Police camp. The injured were taken to a local hospital, where Jamal was declared dead on arrival. The baul singer was on his way to Akhaura upazila for attending a music festival when the accident occurred, the OC said.