Jhenaidah: A van driver was killed in a road accident at Elangi village in Kotchandpur upazila of the district this morning. The deceased was Chaitanya Pal, 40, son of Kartik Pal, a resident of Fazilpur village of the upazila.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, the accident took place on the Kaliganj-Jibannagar road around 9 am when a bus coming from the opposite direction hit a van, leaving its driver dead on the spot. Kabir Hossain Matubbar, Officer-in-Charge of Kotchandpur Police Station, confirmed the incident.
Police recovered the body and sent it to Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy.