Two people, including a woman, were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a CNG-run autorickshaw and a pickup van in Banskhali upazila of Chittagong yesterday morning.
The dead were identified as Morium Begum, 55, and Shripod Joldash, 38, said Officer-in-Charge Swapan Kumar Majumdar of Banshkhali police station. However, the detailed identities of the victims and the injured could not be confirmed till the filing of this report.
Quoting witnesses, OC Swapan Kumar said: “The accident took place around 8am when a pickup van rammed a city-bound CNG-run autorickshaw from the back near Ekkaitta Pukur Par area of Pukuria Union under the upazila.”
“The van was trying to overtake the CNG which was carrying four people,” he added.
Among the injured, the woman was rushed to Banskhali Upazila Health Complex in critical condition but she succumbed to her injuries later. The other critically injured, Joldash died at Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
No one was arrested in this connection yet, the OC said.