Three members of a family including an engineering university student were killed after being hit by a speeding truck in Uttara area of Dhaka early Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Amit ,23, a student of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology and his relatives Naimul Haque ,32, an employee at a private firm, and Javed Alam Khan 55.
The trio was standing on the roadside at Azampur intersection under Uttara East Police Station around 2 am when the stone-laden truck from Mymensingh ran over them, said Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Uttara East Police Station Md Golam Mostafa.
Two of them died on the spot while the third was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, the OC said.
One killed, three injured in Dhaka-Mawa Expressway accident
The bodies were kept at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
The victims were returning home after visiting a patient at a nearby hospital.
The truck was seized and its driver Rakibul Islam was detained, the OC added.