Shawdesh Desk:

Three motorcyclists were killed and two pedestrians were injured as a bus hit two motorcycles and a truck on Dhaka-Rangpur highway in Chaumathar Mor area of Palashbari upazila in Gaibandha on Monday morning.

The deceased were identified as Bidyut, 28, Subhash, 27, and Sumon, 27, of the district.

Masud Rana, officer-in-charge of Palashbari police station, said that the Nilphamari-bound bus of Al Baraka Paribahan crashed into the motorcycles coming from the opposite direction and then hit a truck at about 8:00am, leaving Bidyut dead on spot.

Subhash and Sumon died from their injuries at Palashbari Upazila Health Complex while two pedestrians were undergoing treatment there, the OC added.

Police seized the bus and the truck but the driver of the vehicles managed to escape, he added.