OUR CORRESPONDENT, Narayanganj

Three people, including a woman and her son, were killed after a bus hit an auto-rickshaw at Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj yesterday, police said.

The deceased were identified as Kakoli Akter, 35, wife of Ashraful Islam; their son Ariyan Ahmed Rafi, 5, residents of Sundarganj upazila of Gaibandha district; and auto-rickshaw driver Anisur Rahman, 23, of Sukanpur village of Rangpur’s Pirgachha upazila.

The accident occurred on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway near Kanchpur Bridge.

Kazi Wahid Murshed, officer-in-charge of Kanchpur Highway Police Station, said, “An auto-rickshaw coming from Siddhirganj collided head-on with a Dhaka-bound bus, killing the three on the spot.”

The bodies were recovered and taken to the Highway Police Station. Both the bus and the auto-rickshaw involved in the accident were seized, he added.

He said they were looking for the bus driver and filing of a case was underway.