At least three people were killed and two others injured as a truck collided head-on with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Baluchora area in Chittagong early Tuesday.
Identities of the deceased could not be identified immediately.
The injured were admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
The accident took place when the truck hit the auto-rickshaw on Chittagong-Hathazari road around 12:45am, leaving three auto-rickshaw passengers dead on the spot and two others, including the driver, critically injured, said Nurul Islam, Sub-Inspector of Bayezid Bostami Police Station.