Two people were killed and three others injured as a truck crashed into another truck on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Boilar Bazar in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh district on Thursday.
One of the deceased was identified as Milon Mia, 25, a van puller and son of Zinna Mia of the upazila while the identity of the helper of a truck driver could not be known immediately.
The accident occurred in the morning when the Dhaka-bound truck hit the stationary one from behind and fell on to a rickshaw van, leaving two people dead on the spot and three others injured, said Main Uddin, officer-in-charge of Trishal Police Station.
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The injured were taken to Mymensingh Medical College and Hospital.