A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader was killed after a speeding covered van crashed into his motorbike in Noakhali's Chatkhil upazila Wednesday, police said. "The deceased Shihab Uddin Soron, 26, was from Ramnarayan union. He was a second-year student at Noakhali Government College and the assistant school affairs secretary of the district JCD," Asgar Uddin Dukhu, president of the district JCD unit, said. "The accident occurred in the afternoon as the JCD leader was going to Sahapur from Sompara. At this time, the covered van of Incepta Pharmaceuticals hit his bike in the Bangla Bazar area on Kochua-Bottali road," Md Harunur Rashid Bahar, chairman of Ramnarayan union parishad, said. Shihab died from the impact of the crash, he added. Although locals could seize the covered van, its driver managed to flee the scene, Md Abu Jafar, inspector of Chatkhil police station, said. Read more: Injured AL leader dies in Sylhet