News update
  • Myanmar: UN chief for urgent access as quake toll mounts     |     
  • AI’s $4.8 tn future: UN warns of widening digital divide      |     
  • Volker Turk warns of increasing risk of atrocity crimes in Gaza     |     
  • Ultimate goal is to join ASEAN as full member, says Dr Yunus      |     
  • South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office      |     

2 killed as truck hits CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Sirajganj

Special Correspondent Accidents 2024-06-01, 1:22pm

sirajganj-acci-c051a1be16d00657af00a464d55fc91c1717226566.jpg

2 killed as truck hits CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Sirajganj



Sirajganj, June 01 - Two people were killed and three others injured as a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Sirajganj-Raiganj road at Alokdia in Sadar upazila of Sirajganj district. 

The deceased were identified as Mahadeb Saha, 60 of Raiganj upazila and Abu Obaida, 24, son of Abu Talha of Muktargati village in Sadar upazila.

Quoting witnesses, Sirajul Islam, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said the accident occurred around 10 on Friday night when the truck hit the CNG-run auto-rickshaw, leaving two people killed on the spot and three others injured.

The injured were taken to Sirajganj 250-bed Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Mujib General Hospital from where Jharna Rani, wife of Mahadeb was sent to Dhaka for better treatment.

On information, police sent the bodies to hospital morgue for autopsy.

A case was filed in this connection.-UNB