Three people were killed and another was injured as a truck plunged into a roadside ditch at Achhimtala on the Dhaka-Tangail highway in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail early today.

Identity of the dead could not be known immediately.

Officer-in-charge of Gorai Highway Police Station Humayun Kabir said a Sirajganj-bound CI sheet-laden truck from Dhaka fell into a roadside ditch in the area after its driver lost control over the steering at about 5:00am, leaving three people dead on the spot and one injured.

The injured was admitted to Mirzapur Kumudini Medical College Hospital.