At least three people were killed in a head-on collision between a truck and a CNG autorickshaw at Bagra Bazar area of Sadar upazila on Friday night, police said.

Only one of the deceased - Ripon, 40, a resident of Brahman Sakua village Bagadi union of Chandpur sadar - could be identified as of filing this report.

The accident occurred around 9:30pm when the cylinder carrying truck hit the auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction near Bagra Bazar area on Chandpur-Raypur highway, said Md Abdur Rashid, officer-in-charge (OC) of Chandpur Model police station.

The impact of the crash was such that the three people travelling in the auto died on the spot, added the OC.

The bodies were kept in the Chandpur Sadar Hospital, said the OC.

"Police seized the truck and arrested its driver," added  OC Abdur Rashid.

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Road accidents are common in Bangladesh.

At least 2,329 people, including 291 women and 381 children, were killed and 4,361 others injured in 2,159 road accidents across the country in the first half of the current year, says a new report by the Road Safety Foundation.

The road accidents occurred on highways, and national, inter-district and regional roads between January 1 and June 30 across the country.