Mother-daughter killed in sleep as pickup van ploughs through house

A woman and her daughter were killed and husband was injured after a pickup van ploughed through their house in Tangail'e Dhanbari upazila early Tuesday.

The accident happened at about 2am in Nolla Bazar area on the Tangail-Jamalpur regional road.
Police, however, detained the pickup van driver.

The deceased were Phool Rani, 42, and her daughter Radhika Rani Das, 12, a student of class V.

Ganesh Chandra Ravidas, 45, is undergoing treatment at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.