Truck runs over woman, son in Kushtia

A woman and her son were killed and another was injured as a truck ran over them in Sadar upazila of Kushtia district on Friday morning.

The deceased were Anjana Khatun, wife of Nazmul, a resident of Kaburhat village in the upazila, and her son Iftiaz, the final year student of Kushtia Polytechnic Institute. 

Kushtia Model Police Station officer in-charge Sabbirul Alam said a truck ran over the woman and her two sons at Bottoil intersection around 10 am, leaving one son, Iftiaz, dead on the spot, and her and her baby boy injured.

They were rushed to Kushtia General Hospital where the on-duty doctors declared the woman, he added.

The injured child was, later, sent to Dhaka for better treatment, the OC also said. 

Al Mamun Sagor/SU