Magura road crash kills 2

At least two people were killed in a truck-pickup van collision in Belnagar Bazar area on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Sadar upazila Thursday early morning.

The deceased are-pickup van driver Md Hanif, 40, and his helper, whose identity is yet to be known.

A Jessore-bound pick up van from Dhaka had a head on collision with a Faridpur-bound sand laden truck from Magura in the area around 4:30am, leaving the pickup van driver and his assistant dead on the spot, said assistant sub inspector Abdur Rauf of Magura highway police.

The bodies were sent to Magura Sadar hospital morgue and both the vehicles were seized, ASI added.