Bagerhat, 16 Jan -Two people, including a three-wheeler trolley driver, were killed and four others injured as the vehicle carrying them overturned in Mongla upazila of Bagerhat early Thursday.
The deceased were named as driver Didar Mollah, 30, son of Jafar Mollah of Khulna’s Dacope upazila and day labour Rokan Uddin, 60, son of Wazed Ali Sheikh of Sonaitala village under Mongla upazila.
The injured are Wahed Mollick, Ayub Sardar, Milon Mallick, and Tajmir Sheikh.
Wahed was undergoing treatment at Khulna Medical College and Hospital and the trio at Mongla Upazila Health Complex.
Mongla police station’s Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Anisur Rahman said the six day labours were returning to their village home in Mongla from Khulna after harvesting paddy there.
Their vehicle veered off after losing control and hit a roadside pile of stones in Chapra area around 2am, leaving the two dead on the spot and four others injured, he said,
The injured were undergoing treatment, the OC said, adding that the trolley was seized.