5 killed as truck rams 3-wheeler

Five people were killed and two others injured as a truck rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj yesterday morning.

The truck hit the three-wheeler from the opposite direction near Kanchan Zinda Park around 9:00am, killing four people on the spot, said Mohammad Ahsan, SI of Rupganj Police Station, quoting locals.

The injured were rushed to Rupganj Upazila Health Complex where another person succumbed to his injuries, he added.

The truck driver fled the scene immediately after the accident and all the victims were the passengers of the CNG-run auto-rickshaw, reports our correspondent.

Protesting the incident, locals vandalised and torched the truck, halting traffic movement on the Madanpur-Bhulta-Joydebpur road for around half and an hour, the police official said.

On information, police went to the spot and brought the situation under control.

Police could identify only three of the five dead and their bodies were handed over to the families.

They are-- Jahangir Alam, 28, son of Ismail Hossain of Jamalpur;  Mahsin Ali, 35, son of Yasin Miah and Manir Hossain, 28, son of Yusuf Mollah of Gazipur.

A case was being filed in connection with the accident, SI Ahsan said around 3pm yesterday.