Two people were killed and another one injured as a pick-up van hit a vehicle on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Baushia Pakhi Point on early Tuesday.

The deceased are Md Shamim, 25, of Ramkrishnapur village in Homna upazila of Comilla district, and Md Yamin, 28, of Kolabondi village of Bancharampur upazila in Brahmanbaria district. Both of them are vegetable traders.

Bhaberchar Police outpost in-charge Kamruzzaman Raj said the Comilla-bound vegetables laden pick-up van rammed the vehicle in front of it in the area at about 4:00am, leaving two vegetable traders of the pick-up van dead on the spot.

The driver was also critically injured in the incident.