2 killed, 5 hurt in Chandpur road accident
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Chandpur: Two people were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Devpur on the Chandpur-Comilla Highway in Hajiganj upazila on Tuesday evening.
One of the deceased is Anisur Rahman, 35, an expatriate.
Witnesses said a Chandpur-bound speeding truck collided head-on with an auto-rickshaw at about 7:30pm, leaving seven passengers of the three-wheeler injured.
Later, locals rescued them and whisked them off to Hajiganj Health Complex where on-duty doctors declared Anisur and the taxi driver dead.
Five other injured were shifted to Comilla General Hospital as their conditions were critical.
Hajiganj police officer-in-charge M Shah Alam confirmed the incident.
Police seized both of the vehicles.