NARSINGDI: Five people, three of them members of a family, were killed as a recklessly running truck rammed into a tempo on the Dhaka-Monohordi highway at Kumradi in Shibpur upazila on Monday morning.

The deceased were identified as Bedon Mia, 45, his wife Zahura Begum, 30, and their one-and-a-half-year-old baby girl Sadia, Siraj Mia, 30, and tempo-driver Razu, 30.

Police and witnesses told Banglanews24.com.bd that the accident occurred at about 6am when a truck collided head-on with a passenger tempo.

“All the four passengers of the tempo were killed instantly while its driver was injured fatally in the accident,” says a spot account of the violent collision.

The driver of the three-wheeler, Raju, later died on way to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

On information, police rushed to the spot but couldn’t catch the killer truck. They sent the bodies to Sadar hospital morgue.   

BDST/1207HRS, AUGUST 2, 2010