Five workers killed in Sirajganj road accident

SIRAJGANJ, May 26 (UNB): Five workers were killed and six others injured when a truck crashed into a mini passenger vehicle on the busy Hatikumrul-Bonpara highway in Sirajganj in the early hours of Thursday.
All the victims were occupants of the mini passenger vehicle (locally known as Leguna).
Lutfur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Hatikumrul Highway Police, said that the accident occurred in the Ramarchar area of the district's Solonga upazila.
"The stone-laden truck crashed into the Natore-bound Leguna, leaving three dead on the spot and eight others injured," he said.
Two other injured died on the way to hospital, he added. "The other injured are being treated at different hospitals."