3 killed in bus-pickup van collision in Dhamrai

Three people were killed and two others injured when a bus hit a pickup van at Bathuli bus-stand on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka on Monday.

One of the deceased was identified as Anwar Hossain,26, a meter reader-cum-messenger of Dhaka Palli Bidyut Samiti-3 at Ganda of Savar and a resident of Manikganj district. The identities of the others could not be known immediately, said police.

Monirul Islam, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Golora Highway Police, said the accident occurred around 8am when a Khulna-bound bus of Falguni Paribahan collided head-on with a Dhaka-bound pickup van at Bathuli bus-stand, leaving three of the passengers of the pickup van dead on the spot. Two more were injured.

The injured were admitted to Dhamrai Upazila Health Complex.

Police seized both the vehicles but driver of the bus managed to flee, added the OC.