At least two people died and two sustained injuries in a road crash on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway yesterday.
The dead were Md Harun, 28, and Rasheda Begum, 50, while the injured were Md Rustom, 9, Rasheda’s son, and Nurul Alam, 35.
Sergeant Zillur Rahim of Kumira Highway Police Outpost said a Chittagong-bound CNG autorickshaw carrying three passengers, collided head-on with a truck on the highway near Banshbaria area of Sitakunda around 11:30am leaving Harun, the driver of the autorickshaw spot dead.
The three injured passengers were taken to the upazila health complex where doctors declared Rasheda dead.
Nurul was later shifted to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital in a critical condition.
Police seized the truck, but the driver managed to flee the spot, Rahim said.
