4 killed as truck hits auto-rickshaw in Cox’s Bazar

UNB, Cox’s Bazar :

Four people were killed and another injured when a truck crashed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Saturday, police said.

Three of the deceased were identified as Salema Khatun, 45, wife of Joynal, Anwar Islam, 25, son of Gura Mia, and Bidhu Dhar, 52, son of Manindra Dhar of the upazila, while the identity of another could not be known immediately.

Sheikh Mohammad Ali, officer-in-charge of Ukhiya Police Station, said the accident occurred in the morning at Hijolia when the Cox’s Bazar-bound truck hit the CNG-run auto-rickshaw, leaving five people injured.

The injured were taken to the local upazila health complex where doctors declared four of them dead.