STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Cox’s Bazar

Two passengers of a battery-run rickshaw were killed and four others injured after a car hit the three-wheeler in Satkania upazila on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway yesterday morning.

“The accident occurred around 9:30am in front of Rajmahal Community Centre near the BOC intersection. The impact threw the rickshaw some distance away, leaving it mangled,” said Dohazari Highway Police Station Officer-in-Charge Salah Uddin Chowdhury.

The deceased were identified as Babul Dey, 55, of Chandanaish upazila, and Ranjit Dhar, 60, of Satkania.

Police said locals rescued six injured people and took them to Dohazari Health Complex. After initial treatment, critically injured Babul and Ranjit were referred to Chattogram Medical College Hospital, where they later died.