Shawdesh desk:

A man and his grandson were killed after a bus crashed into a battery-run auto-rickshaw at Muraripara intersection of Bagmara upazila in Rajshahi on Thursday noon.

The deceased were identified as Jaber Ali, 60 and his grandson Mohammad Abudulla, 7, son of Mainul Islam, both of them hailed from Barabihanli village of the upazila.

Ataur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bagmara Police Station, confirmed the accident.

He said, “The Naogaon-bound passenger bus hit the auto-rickshaw carrying them, coming from opposite direction in the area at 1:00 pm, leaving them dead on the spot”.

Later, the bodies were sent to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) morgue for autopsies, he said.