Two killed as tractor hits auto-rickshaw in Joypurhat

Accident - collision

Joypurhat, May 06 --Two people were killed and four others sustained injuries in Joypurhat's Sadar upazila on Sunday after a tractor-trolley rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw, police said.

The accident, which occurred on Sunday night in Dadra area of the upazila, left Jiten Barman, 41, and Idris Ali, 33, of Panchbibi upazila dead.

The identities of the injured could not be known immediately, Joypurhat Sadar Police Station Officer-in-charge (OC) Md. Humayun Kabir said.

The tractor hit the auto-rickshaw, carrying day labourers who were returning home in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat after harvesting paddy from Raninagar area of Naogaon district.

Jiten and Idris died on the spot, the OC said.

The injured were admitted to the 250-bed general hospital in Joypurhat.

One of them is in critical condition, the hospital authorities said. - UNB