Five persons, including two children, were killed as a truck hit a CNG-run autorickshaw on Sylhet-Tamabil highway this morning.
The accident happened at the highway's Ferighat area under Jaintiapur upazila in Sylhet at around 6:40am, said Dastagir Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Jaintiapur Police Station.
In the accident, four of a family -- two women and two children -- and the auto-rickshaw driver died on spot, the OC said, adding that the bodies were being recovered.
The deceased are identified as Sadia Begum (35), her four-month old baby Sahadat Hossan, daughter Sabia Begum (7), her sister-in-law Habibunnesa (33) from Jaintiapur's Rupcheng village; and the autorickshaw driver Hossain Ahmed (35) of the upazila's Pakhibil village.
Deceased Sadia's brother-in-law Md Jakaria (50) and his wife Hasina Begum (40) are also critically injured and we're sent to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.
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