Shawdesh Desk:

Two people were killed and four others injured in a collision between a CNG-run auto rickshaw and a bus under Kuliarchar upazila of the district on Sunday.

The deceased are auto rickshaw driver Rifat, 26, son of late Jamal Uddin of Kishoreganj municipality, and Johora Begum, 65, wife of late Raichh Uddin.

Kuliarchar police station officer-in-charge Mohammad Golam Mostafa said that the accident occurred in the morning when the speeding bus crashed into the auto rickshaw on Kishoreganj-Bhairab regional highway in Maddhyarchar area under the upazila.

‘The accident left the duo dead on the spot and four others critically injured,’ he said.

The injured are now undergoing treatment at Jahurul Islam Medical College Hospital in Bajitpur upazila, he added.