Mymensingh: A father and his son were killed while another three injured as a private car hit a covered-van on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway at Nishinda in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh on Sunday morning.

The deceased are Kadir Master, in his sixties, a village doctor and his son Jewel Khan of Jamirdia village of the upazila.

Mamunur Rashid, officer-in-charge of Bhaluka Model Police Station, said the accident took place when a speeding private car hit the covered-van from behind around 9:00am, leaving Kadir dead on the spot, and four including his three sons—Jewel Khan, Bachir Khan, Biplob Khan—injured.

Locals took them to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where Jewel Khan died while undergoing treatment, police said.