Three people were killed in a road accident on Bangabandhu Bridge East Link Road in Kalihati upazila of Tangail this morning.

Mosharaf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Bangabandhu Bridge East Police Station, confirmed the incident to our local correspondent.

The accident occurred at Hatia area at around 6:00am when an unidentified vehicle hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw from behind, leaving the auto-rickshaw driver, Sabur Miah, 35, dead on the spot and its two passengers injured.

The injured were rushed to Tangail General Hospital where they succumbed to their injuries, the OC said, adding that their identities could not be known immediately.

The bodies were kept at the morgue of the hospital, he added.