A woman and her minor daughter died and five others were injured as a speeding bus crashed into a CNG-run autorickshaw on Bogura-Nagarbari Highway in Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj on Thursday, said police.
The deceased Mitu Biswas, 30, and her daughter Ichhamoni, were residents of Khukni Jughibari village under the same upazila.
Hatikumrul Highway police station’s Officer-in-Charge (OC) MA Wadud confirmed the matter, saying that the accident happened around noon when the speeding bus of ‘Shahjadpur Travels’ from nearby Pabna district ran over the autorickshaw coming from the opposite in Madla area, leaving the mother and her daughter dead on the spot and the five injured critically.
The injured were sent to Upazila health complex where they are undergoing treatment, he said.
The bodies were handed over to the family upon getting no complaints from them, he said, adding that a case was filed in this connection.