Pabna: Six people, including two women, were killed and another was injured as a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Ahmadpur adjacent to Kashinathpur Bazar in Sujanagar upazila on early Monday, reports UNB.

Five of the deceased are Abul Kalam, 36, Abdul Malek, 32, Jamal Khan, 45, Sadhan, 27, and Hasina Khatun, 27, while the identity of the another deceased could not yet be known.

All the victims hailed from Sujanagar and Sathia upazilas of the district.

Tajul Huda , officer-in-charge of Aminpur Police Station, said a sand-laden truck hit the auto-rickshaw in the area at about 7:00am, leaving four of its passengers dead on the spot and three others injured.

Later, the injured were taken to local hospital where two others died after admission.