LALMONIRHAT, June 26 (UNB): Two people were killed and seven others injured in a road crash on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway at Palashi Bazar in Aditmari upazila on Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as Nandu Chandra Roy, 55 and Rabiul Islam, 42, an auto-rickshaw driver of KakinaWabda Bazar in Kaliganj upazila.
Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Aditmari Police Station said the accident took place around 7.00 am when a truck hit an auto-rickshaw carrying eight people, leaving two people, including the auto-rickshaw driver, dead on the spot and seven others injured.
The injured were taken to a local hospital from where four were shifted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital.
In Mymensingh, two people were killed after a truck plunged into a roadside ditch at Lengra Bazar in Muktagaccha upazila on Wednesday.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Ali Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Muktagaccha Police Station, said the accident took place around 6:30am when a Mymensingh-bound goods-laden truck fell into the ditch.
The driver and his assistant were killed on the spot.
On information, police recovered the bodies and sent them to local hospital for autopsy.
Four die in Lalmonirhat, Mymensingh road crashes
FE Team | Published: June 27, 2019 00:20:35
Four die in Lalmonirhat, Mymensingh road crashes
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