A man, a woman and a child were killed in a motorcycle accident on the Shafipur flyover along the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Kaliakair, Gazipur, on Wednesday afternoon.
The accident occurred around 2:30pm. Police have yet to identify the victims.
Manzur Morshed, officer-in-charge of Naojor Highway Police Station under the Gazipur Highway Police Region, said police rushed to the scene after receiving information about the accident and found the bodies of a man, a woman and a child lying on the road after apparently being thrown off the motorcycle.
Police suspect the adults were husband and wife and the child was theirs. However, the cause of the crash remains unclear.
The flyover has no CCTV cameras, and police have yet to find any eyewitnesses, the OC said.
He added that the bodies had been recovered and an investigation was underway to determine how the motorcycle crashed and to establish the victims’ identities.
