Comilla, Sept 18 (UNB) – Five people, including three children, were killed and another person was injured as a private car plunged into a roadside ditch at Silunia on the Noakhali-Comilla highway in Laksam upazila on Sunday morning.
The deceased could not be identified immediately.
Officer-in-charge of Laksam Police Station Mahfuj Ahmed said the Dhaka-bound private car, coming from Noakhali, fell into a roadside ditch after hitting a bridge in the area as its driver lost control over the steering around 6:45 am, leaving a child and a man dead on the spot and four others injured.
The injured were admitted to Laksam Upazila Health Complex where two children and a woman succumbed to their injures later, the OC added.
