Sirajganj road crash claims 3 lives

Sirajganj road crash claims 3 lives

Three people were killed as a pick-up van hit a stone-laden truck on Bangabandhu Bridge (western side) connecting road in Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj early Saturday.

The victims could not be identified immediately.

The van driver and two other people got stuck inside the fruit-laden pick-up van after it hit the Dhaka-bound truck from behind in the area around 4:45am, said Sirajganj fire service deputy assistant director Abdul Hamid.

On information, policemen of Bangabandhu (west) police station and fire service men rescued them and sent to 250-bed Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib General Hospital in Sirajganj, where physicians declared the three dead.

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