A school teacher was killed and six others including five schoolboys injured in a road accident at Automills area in Natore’s Baraigram upazila on Wednesday noon.
The dead man was identified as Abdul Bari, a resident of the upazila, reports UNB.
The accident took place when an auto-rickshaw smashed a school rickshaw-van head on after hitting a motorcycle, leaving the motorcyclist dead on the spot and injuring six others, said Alim Hossain, officer-in-charge of Banpara Highway Police Station.
The injured were taken to a local clinic and Rajshahi Medical College Hospital immediately, the OC added.