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4 of a family killed in bus-auto rickshaw collision

Four members of a family including two children were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Dinajpur on Thursday morning.

The accident occurred on Dinajpur-Fulbari highway near Shibpur area in Chirirbandar upazila at 10:30am. 

Of the deceased, two were identified as Uttama Roy, 35 and his wife Pallabi Roy, 32. 

Locals said a bus of Keya Paribahan was going to Fulbari this morning. When the vehicle reached near Shibpur area, it collided head-on with a Dinajpur-bound CNG-run auto-rickshaw, leaving two people dead on the spot and four others including the auto-rickshaw driver injured critically. Later, the injured were sent to Dinajpur M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared two of them dead.

Bazlur Rashid, Officer-in-charge of Chirirbandar Police Station, confirmed the matter to Jago News.