Dhaka, Sept. 27 -- Two motorcyclists have been killed in separate road crashes in Satkhira.

The crashes occurred at Chhaygharia intersection in Sadar Upazila and on the Patkelghata Overbridge in Tala Upazila on Saturday night.

The dead were Mehedi Hasan Sabuj, 28, of Ashashuni village in Ashashuni Upazila, and Rakibul Hasan, 19, of Bala Danga village in Sadar Upazila.

Sadar Police chief Md Mahmudur Rahman said a motorcycle collided head-on with a van or three-wheeler at Chhaygharia intersection on the Satkhira-Jashore road around 8:30pm.

The motorcycle rider, Rakibul, was critically injured in the crash.

He was rescued and taken to Satkhira Medical College Hospital, where a doctor in the emergency department declared him dead, the po...