3 killed as train hits auto-rickshaw in Tangail

District Correspondent Tangail
Published: 11 January 2023, 02:24 PM
3 killed as train hits auto-rickshaw in Tangail

Three people including a child were killed and five others injured as a train hit an auto-rickshaw at Tarakandi-Bangabandhu bridge rail line at Depakandi area in Bhuapur upazila of Tangail on Wednesday noon. 

Of them, the one-and-half-year-old child was identified as Jannati.  

The injured people were sent to Tangail General Hospital. 

Muhammad Faridul Islam, Officer-in-charge of Bhuapur Police Station, said two passengers of the auto-rickshaw died on the spot after the train hit the vehicle around 12pm. Later, the injured were sent to the hospital where the child died.