3 Bangladeshi students killed, 1 injured in Canada road crash

Three Bangladeshi students were killed and another was critically injured in a road crash in Canada on Monday night (Canada local time). 

The accident took place on Highway 427 southbound ramp to Dundas Street West in Ontario.

The deceased were identified as Shahriar Khan, Enjela Barei and Arian Deepto. 

The injured is Nibir Kumar, son of popular singer Kumar Biswajit.

In a tweet, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said all four people in the vehicle have been identified. They were living in Toronto on study permits from Bangladesh.

OPP said a woman and man, both 20, and a 17-year-old boy died in the crash. The injured driver, a 21-year-old man, remains in critical condition.

The families have been notified.

Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said a vehicle with four occupants travelling south on Highway 427 at an extremely high speed “left the ramp, went over the concrete wall into the ditch where it was then vaulted into a concrete wall of Dundas Street.” The vehicle was then “redirected back across the wall onto the ramp where it began to be consumed by fire,” Schmidt said in a video, adding firefighters extricated all four occupants from the vehicle before it was consumed by fire.

The two rear seat passengers were pronounced dead on scene. The front seat passenger, a woman, was taken to a trauma centre where she died. The male driver was also taken to a trauma centre and remains in critical condition.

(With inputs from CBC News, Toronto News)