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UP member among 3 killed in Dinajpur road crash

News Desk Accidents 2022-05-16, 2:47pm

A motorcyclist and two pillion riders, including a UP member, were killed when a truck hit their motorbike at Mangalpur in Bochaganj upazila .



A motorcyclist and two pillion riders, including a UP member, were killed when a truck hit their motorbike at Mangalpur in Bochaganj upazila of Dinajpur early Monday.
The deceased were identified as Rakibul Islam Rakib, 42, member of Atgaon Union Parishad No. 4 in Bochaganj, Noajim, 16, and Shamim Osman, 22, of Thakurgaon district.
The accident occurred when the trio was returning from a petrol pump with fuel for their microbus that ran out of fuel on their way home with family.
A truck from opposite direction hit the motorcycle at Mongalpur around 12am and fled the scene, leaving them dead on spot, said Fakhrul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Birol police station.
The bodies were handed over to their respective families, he added.