Three, including child, die in three-way crash in Brahmanbaria

Police believe the accident occurred due to dense fog on the highway in the morning

Three people, including a child, have died and five others have been injured in a three-way collision involving a truck, a microbus, and a pick-up van in Brahmanbaria’s Bijoynagar Upazila.

Khatihata Highway Police Station chief Margub Towhid said the incident took place in Budhanti union’s Bargharia area on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway around 5:30am on Wednesday.

The dead have been identified as Pavel Miah, 30, and Fazilatunnesa, 75, and 11-year-old Raisa, who were identified with single names.

They were all passengers on the microbus.

Quoting locals, the police chief said a Cumilla-bound truck collided with a Sylhet-bound microbus in the Bargharia area on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in the morning. At the same time, another pick-up van hit the two vehicles.

All three vehicles were damaged in the three-way crash. Fazilatunnesa and Raisa died on the spot while Pavel died on his way to the hospital.

OC Margub says police believe the accident happened due to dense fog on the highway in the morning.