Three motorcycle riders were killed as a passenger-bus ran over their motorcycle in Kalihati area on Dhaka-Tangail-Bangabandhu bridge highway on Saturday afternoon.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Bangabandhu bridge east police station Mosharraf Hossain told BSS that the accident occurred when a passenger-bus ran over a motorcycle carrying three youths aged between 15 to 17 in Hatia area of Kalihati upazila at 2.30pm.
He said the youths died on the spot and bodies were kept at the police station.
The bus has been seized, the OC added.
Source: BSS