2 killed in Rajshahi road crash

Two men were killed as a private car carrying them plunged into a roadside ditch in Bhangra of Rajshahi on Sunday morning.

The deceased are Niyamat Ali, 55, son of a certain late Moslem of Namo Mingachha in Chapainawabganj sadar upazila and Abdul Mannan Sardar, 58, son of Ashraf Sardar of Nasratpur village in Adamdighi upazila of Bogura, reports UNB.

Golam Mostafa, officer-in-charge of Belpukur police station, said that the accident took place around 8:00am when the private car heading towards Rajshahi from Bogura plunged into the ditch, leaving the two critically injured.

Later, they were rushed to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital where the duty doctors declared them dead.