At least two people were killed and seven others injured in a road crash on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway at Palashi Bazar in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat district on Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as Nandu Chandra Roy, 55 and Rabiul Islam, 42, an auto-rickshaw driver of KakinaWabda Bazar in Kaliganj upazila, reports UNB.
Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Aditmari Police Station said the accident took place around 7:00 am when a truck hit an auto-rickshaw carrying eight people, leaving two people, including the auto-rickshaw driver, dead on the spot and seven others injured.
The injured were taken to a local hospital from where four were shifted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital.
After the accident, local people put up barricade on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway for half-an hour.
