Two persons were killed and another was injured in a head-on collision between a tractor trolley and a van on the Bagerhat-Pirojpur Highway near Shrimp Research Center in Pirojpur on Wednesday morning, officials said.
One of the deceased was identified as Reshmi Begum, wife of Babul Fakir of Sundarghona village of Sadar upazila. All the victims were occupants of the van.
Md Golam Sarwar, assistant director of Bagerhat Fire Service and Civil Defense, said the accident occurred around 9.30am when the brick-laden tractor trolley crashed into the van, leaving the woman dead on the spot and two others injured.
The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared one of them dead.
The van puller was sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital for better treatment, the officer said.
The bodies have been kept in the hospital morgue for post-mortem, he added.
Source: United News of Bangladesh