Man killed as truck hits bike

A man was killed after a truck hit a motorcycle on Dewanganj-Jamalpur road in Jamalpur's Melandah upazila yesterday.

The victims is Abdullah, 27, of Majhipara in the upazila, police said.

Quoting locals, Delawar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Melandah Police Station, said when Abdullah was going to Dewanganj from Jamalpur, a goods-laden truck hit his bike near Shyampur market in the afternoon, leaving him critically injured.

Locals took him to Melandah Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared him dead, said the OC.

The body was handed over to family members without an autopsy as no complaint was filed, he said.

The truck was seized but its driver managed to flee, the OC added.