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Three killed as auto-rickshaw and covered van collide head-on in Gazipur

From Daily Star · () English

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  • Three people died and two were injured in a head-on collision between a CNG-powered auto-rickshaw and a covered van in Kaliakair, Gazipur.
  • The crash occurred around noon in the Chairman Bari area of Kanchanpur on the Kaliakair-Fulbaria-Mawna regional road.
  • Police identified one victim as 26-year-old Asadullah, while the other identities had not been confirmed immediately.

Three people were killed and two others injured when a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a covered van in Kaliakair, Gazipur, on the Kaliakair-Fulbaria-Mawna regional road.

The crash occurred around noon in the Chairman Bari area of Kanchanpur. Police said the auto-rickshaw was travelling from Kaliakair toward Mawna Chowrasta in Sreepur with four passengers when it struck the van travelling in the opposite direction.

Locals rescued the injured and took them to Kaliakair Upazila Health Complex, where doctors declared three people dead. Police identified one of the deceased as Asadullah, 26. The identities of the other victim and the injured had not been confirmed immediately, said Shahidul Islam, officer-in-charge of Kaliakair Police Station.

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