A man and a woman riding a motorcycle were killed after an unidentified vehicle hit them on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj.
The accident occurred around 3:30am on Friday in the Samashpur area of the upazila.
The deceased were identified as Md Rafi, 20, and Jannatul Mawa Jyoti, 19. They were travelling on a motorcycle from Shewrapara in Mirpur, Dhaka, towards Mawa when a speeding unidentified vehicle hit their motorcycle upon reaching Samashpur.
They lost control of the motorcycle and fell beside the road, dying on the spot.
Upon receiving the news, two units of the Fire Service and Civil Defence rushed to the scene, recovered the bodies and handed them over to Hasara Highway Police.
Muhammad Shafiqul Islam, deputy assistant director of Munshiganj Fire Service and Civil Defence, confirmed the incident.
He said two Fire Service units recovered the bodies and handed them over to Hasara Highway Police. They had received information that the accident occurred after an unidentified vehicle hit the motorcycle.
The nature of the relationship between the two deceased was not immediately known. The vehicle involved in the accident has yet to be identified.
