Three killed in Jhenaidah road accident

Three people, including two children, were killed and seven others injured in a collision between a battery-run van and a pick-up van in Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenaidah district on Thursday, reports BSS.

The deceased were identified as two-month-old Rafan, from Elangi village in Kotchandpur upazila, Khuku Moni, 7, an inhabitant at Balakanda village in Kaliganj upazila, and van driver Salman Uddin, a resident in Kaliganj upazila.

Local people said the accident occurred in Kashipur area on Kaliganj-Jibannagar Road in the afternoon, leaving all three dead on the spot.

Of the injured, five people were sent to Jashore General Hospital.

Kotchandpur police station officer-in-charge Moin Uddin said the law enforcement has seized the pickup.

A case was filed in this regard, he added.