Three students killed in Jashore road crash

JASHORE, Oct 08 (UNB): Three twelfth-graders of the same educational institution were killed after a truck mowed them down on their motorcycle on the Benapole-Jashore highway on Friday night, police said.

The accident claimed the lives of Asif, Arman and Salman - all twelfth-grade students at Jashore Sadar upazila's Natunhat Public College.

The crash occurred at 9:15pm in the Natunhat Gazir Dorga as the truck ran over the twelfth-graders after hitting their motorcycle. "Asif and Armaan died on the spot. Salman succumbed to his injuries at Jashore General Hospital," Navaran Highway Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mizanur Rahman said.