A woman and her mother-in-law were killed in a collision between a motorcycle and human hauler at Devgram in Gopalganj’s Kotalipara upazila on Friday morning.
The dead were identified as Mansura Begum, 20, wife of Nayeem Mollah and her mother-in-law Murshida Begum, 55, hailing from Bhuturia village in Mollahat upazila of Bagerhat district.
Md Kamrul Faruk, officer-in-charge of Kotalipara Police Station, said Nayeem along with his wife and mother was going to his father-in-law's house in Bagerhat.
The accident took place when a human hauler collided with the motorbike carrying them at around 11:30am, leaving the duo dead on the spot and Nayeem critically injured, as per a UNB report.
On information, police sent the bodies to Gopalganj General Hospital morgue for autopsy while Nayeem was taken to Khulna Medical College Hospital for treatment, the OC added.