Two people were killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between a private car and a battery-run passenger van in Kalai upazila in Joypurhat district on Wednesday.
The accident occured on the Joypurhat-Bogura highway along the Basher Bridge area of the upazila in the afternoon.
The deceased were identified as van passengers Mofazzal Hossain Mondal, 39, and Idris Ali, 61. Both were residents of Bhugoil village of the upazila.
The injured were identified as the van driver Nurul Islam Akand and passenger Ashraf Ali from Burail village.
After the incident, an angry mob detained the private car owner, but the driver fled the scene.
According to witnesses and police, the van carrying four to five passengers was heading towards Punot Bazar around 3PM when it collided head-on with a speeding private car in the Basher Bridge area.
Locals rescued the injured and rushed them to the Kalai Upazila Health Complex, where doctors referred them to Bogura’s Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital due to their critical condition.
Kalai Police Station officer-in-charge Zahid Hossain confirmed the incident.
The bodies of the deceased were handed over to their families, as they did not want to file any complaint, and the car owner was also released, added the police official.
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