2 killed in Sirajganj bus-pickup van collision

Two people were killed and fifteen others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a pickup van at Harinchara area in Solonga upazila of Sirajganj early Sunday. 

Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. 

Ashraful Islam, Sub Inspector of Hatikumrul Highway Police Station, said a passenger-bus named ‘RP special’ collided head-on with a pickup van on Hatikumrul-Bonpara highway in the area, leaving 17 people injured.

Later the injured people were admitted to local clinic and Sirajganj sadar hospital where the doctors declared two of them dead. The bodies, bus and pickup van were kept under the police custody, he said.

Earlier on Saturday, 52 people were killed and at least 150 injured in separate road accidents across the country.