2 killed in Chuadanga road accident

Two people were killed as a bus hit a rickshaw-van on the Chuadanga-Jhenaidah highway in Chuadanga's Sadar upazila this morning.

The deceased were Abdur Razzak, 60, the van puller, and Golam Sarwar, 62, a rice trader, said the district's Sadar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Khaledur Rahman.

OC Khaledur said that Razzak and Sarwar were traveling from Mohammadjuma village to Sarojganj Bazar for trading purposes. But on their way there, the bus heading from Chuadanga town to Dhaka hit the van from behind, leaving the two dead on the spot, he added.

The bodies were recovered and kept at the Chuadanga Sadar Hospital.

Legal proceedings are being taken, the OC said.