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3 die in Madaripur road accident

Three people were killed and two others injured as a covered van rammed a battery-run van in Madaripur's Sadar upazila on Tuesday, January 13.

The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.

A covered van hit a battery-run van in Tatibari area on the Dhaka-Barishal highway around 11:30 am, leaving two individuals dead on the spot and three others injured, said Mostafapur highway police station's officer-in-charge, Mamun Al Rashid.

The injured were rushed to Madaripur 250-bed Hospital, where one was declared dead, he said.

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