Three people were killed as a train crashed into a pickup truck in Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur on Saturday morning.
The deceased are pickup van driver Zakir, 22, his assistant Mridul Hossain, 15, and fruit vendor Mohsin, 50, who was also in the vehicle, according to Sub-Inspector Iqbal Hossain of Narsingdi railway police camp.
According to Arikhola Railway Station Master Kamrul Islam, the Narayanganj-bound pickup and the Dhaka-bound Provati Express collided at an unmanned level crossing in the Nalchhata area.
The four-wheeler got blown away in the impact and fell into a ditch, leaving Zakir, Mridul and Mohsin dead on the spot.
Their bodies would be sent to the morgue of Narsingdi Sadar Hospital for autopsy, said SI Iqbal.
On October 1 last year, a former Dhaka University professor, Abdur Rahim Khan, 72, died in an accident at the same level crossing after a train hit his car. His wife and the driver of the car were also injured in the incident.
