LAXMIPUR: Two people were killed as a truck collided head on with a CNG-run auto rickshaw in Gachhirhat Bazar area on Raipur-Chandpur highway under the district on Tuesday night.

One of the deceased was identified as M Mohsin, 22, a college going student and the identity of the other one could not be known immediately.

Witnesses said that a rashly driven truck rammed a CNG run auto rickshaw in the area around 8:30pm, leaving one passenger of the auto rickshaw dead on the spot and another one injured critically.

However, the injured succumbed to his injury on the way to hospital.

Raipur Thana Sub-Inspector Abul Bashar confirmed the matter to banglanews.

BDST: 2210 HRS, DEC 24, 2013
Edited by: AM Imran Ali/Morshed Jahan Mithun, Newsroom Editor