Five people were dead and several injured in a collision involving two motorcycles and a CNG-run auto rickshaw in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria this afternoon.
The accident happened around 5:00pm on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway near Rampur Government Primary School at Chandura, said Bijoynagar Police Station's Officer-in-charge (OC) Shahidul Islam.
The identities of the deceased have not yet been confirmed, the OC said.
Quoting Sub-inspector Shafiqul Islam, who was at the scene, OC Shahidul said the incident initially involved two motorcycles coming from opposite directions. Moments later, a CNG-run auto rickshaw collided with one of the bikes and fell into a roadside ditch.
All five victims died on the spot, he said.
"The bodies have been recovered from the scene. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital," OC Shahidul added.
FP/MI
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