Two people, including a pickup van driver, were killed in a head-on collision between a truck and a pickup in the Patdhari Bazar area of Sirajganj’s Salanga early Tuesday.
The deceased were identified as pickup driver Rezwan Hossain, 35, of Goalbatan village in Singra upazila of Natore, and Sazzad Hossain, 30, a milk trader from Helensa Para in Bogura Sadar.
A Bogura-bound truck collided with the Nagarbari-bound pickup on the Bogura-Nagarbari highway in the early hours, said Ismail Hossain, officer-in-charge of Hatikumrul Highway Police Station.
Sazzad, who was travelling in the pickup, died on the spot, while Rezwan sustained critical injuries. He was later declared dead at Sirajganj Medical College Hospital.
Following the accident, angry locals blocked the highway by placing the bodies on the road, protesting what they described as a delay in police arrival at the scene.
The blockade caused severe traffic congestion on the highway.
After nearly three hours, the protesters withdrew the blockade following police intervention. Police recovered the bodies and sent those to hospital morgue for autopsy.