At least three people were killed and another was injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Tangail-Bangabandhu Bridge Highway at Pakulla under Jamurki union of Mirzapur upazila in Tangail on Wednesday morning.
The deceased were identified as Hasan, 30, a driver, Emon, 25, a driver’s assistant, both residents of Akhaura, and Shameem, 28, of Akkelpur in Joypurhat.
Gorai highway police sub-inspector Adam Ali said that the accident took place in the early morning as a Dhaka-bound microbus hit a standing covered van in the area, leaving the driver of the microbus, his assistant and a passenger dead on the spot and another passenger critically injured.
Dead bodies were kept at Gorai highway police station and the injured, Meem, was undergoing treatment at Mirzapur Kumudini Medical College Hospital.
Shameem and Meem were a couple and they used to work at Akhaura. They went to Akkelpur in Joypurhat on Eid vacation.
The twisted microbus had been removed from the spot, the SI added.
