MYMENSINGH, Dec 26: Four members of the same family have been killed after a truck and an auto-rickshaw crashed head-on in Tarakanda Upazila here.
Two others were injured in the accident.
The incident occurred in the Gachtala area of the Mymensingh-Netrokona highway on Thursday morning, said Tipu Sultan, chief of the Tarakanda Police Station.
The dead have been identified as 55-year-old Abdur Rashid, who hails from Netrokona's Satberikanda, his wife 42-year-old Bakula Akhter, Bakula's 44-year-old brother Bidya Mia, 44, and Bidya's 18-year-old daughter-in-law Labni Akhter.
Rashid worked at a garments factory in Gazipur's Sreepur, while his brother-in-law Bidya worked as a mason. An auto-rickshaw was heading to Netrokona from Mymensingh when it crashed head-on into a dump truck coming from the opposite direction, police said citing locals. Two people died on the spot.
Four people with injuries were admitted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, where two of them later died.
