BSS, Tangail :
A driver and his helper were killed in a road accident after a covered van rammed a lorry from behind on the Tangail-Bangabandhu Bridge highway in Pungli Bridge area under Kalihati upazila of the district today.
The details about the driver and helper of the covered van could not be known immediately.
The accident occurred in the area when the lorry and the covered van were going to Dhaka.
On the way, the covered van driver lost control over the steering and rammed the lorry from behind around 5:30am, leaving driver and helper of the covered van died on the spot, officer-in-charge (OC) of Elenga Highway Police Outpost Mir Sajedur Rahman said.
Police recovered the bodies from the spot and sent to Tangail General Hospital morgue for autopsy, the OC added.