At least four people, all members of the same family, were killed and two more were injured in a head-on collision between a minibus and a battery-run auto-rickshaw at Doshmail Highway in Dinajpur on Saturday afternoon.
All the victims were the passengers of the auto-rickshaw, police said.
The deceased are 鈥� Morjina, 50, wife of Md Yakub of village Kutoir Majhapara under 10 no Komolpur union in sadar upazila, her sister-in-law Tanjima, 35, wife of Yakub鈥檚 brother Aminul Islam, Sadia, 15, and Shammi, 9, two sisters and granddaughters of Morjina.
Dinajpur Kotwali police officer-in-charge (investigation) Moniruzzaman said that the road accident took place at about 2:00pm on Saturday in front of the Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute at Nashipur.
Moniruzzaman said that after the accident the auto-rickshaw driver and a girl, another passenger of the auto-rickshaw, were taken to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital.
Soon after the clash, the minibus driver fled while police seized the bus, he said.