Two people died and two others injured in a head-on collision between a private car and a battery-run passenger van in Khalai upazila of Joypurhat on Wednesday.
The accident happened on the Joypurhat-Bogura highway in the Basher Bridge area of the upazila in the afternoon, said Officer-in-Charge Zahid Hossain of Kalai Police Station.
The deceased were identified as van passengers Mofazzal Hossain Mondal (39) and Idris Ali (61). Both were residents of Bhugoil village of the upazila, he said.
The injured were identified as the van driver Nurul Islam Akand and passenger Ashraf Ali from Burail village.
After the incident, an angry mob detained the private car owner, but the driver fled the scene, the police official said.
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According to eyewitnesses and police, the van carrying four to five passengers was heading towards Punot Bazar around 3pm when it collided head-on with a speeding private car in the Basher Bridge area.
Locals rescued the injured and rushed them to the Kalai Upazila Health Complex, where doctors referred them to Bogura’s Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital due to their critical condition.
The bodies of the deceased were handed over to their families, as they did not want to file any complaint, and the car owner was also released, added the police official.