6 killed in Rangpur road crush
At least six people including four of a family were killed as a minibus hit an auto-rickshaw in Taraganj upazila of Rangpur this afternoon.
Of the deceased, Shahidul Islam, Dulali Begum, Motasin Hossain and Rowshan Ara Begum were members of a same family from Nilphamari, Bangla daily Prothom Alo reports quoting Tahera Begum, who also sustained injures in the accident.
Identities of the other victims could not be known immediately.
According to Abdul Latif Miah, officer-in-charge of Taraganj Police Station, a minibus hit an auto-rickshaws at Jigartala point of Rangpur-Syedpur highway from the rear around 4:30pm, leaving five people including driver of the auto-rickshaw dead.
On information, police and firefighters rushed to the spot and rescued several people who injured in the accident. One of them, met the end of life on the way to hospital.
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