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Mother, son among 3 dead in Narayanganj road crash
Narayanganj, 7 Feb-Three people, including a woman and her son, were killed after a bus hit an auto-rickshaw at Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj district on Friday, police said.
The deceased were identified as Kakoli Akter, 35, wife of Ashraful Islam, and their son Ariyan Ahmed Rafi, 5, residents of Sundarganj upazila of Gaibandha district, and auto-rickshaw driver Anisur Rahman, 23, son of Abdul Wahab of Sukanpur village of Rangpur's Pirgachha upazila.
The accident occurred on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway near Kanchpur Bridge on Friday evening.
Kazi Wahid Murshed, the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Kanchpur Highway Police Station, said, "An auto-rickshaw coming from Siddhirganj collided head-on with a Dhaka-bound bus, killing the trio on the spot.”
On information, the bodies were recovered and taken to the Highway Police Station, while both the bus and the auto-rickshaw involved in the crash were seized, he added.