At least five people were killed as a speeding truck ploughed through a rickshaw and roadside shops in Bogra town this morning.

The deceased are identified as rickshaw puller Noya Mia, Shanto, Afroza, Bishal, and Ahmad Ali, our Bogra correspondent reports quoting Gaziur Rahman, assistant superintendent of police (ASP) in Bogra.

Details about the victims could not be known immediately.

The iron rod-laden truck ploughed through the rickshaw and shops after its driver lost control over the steering in Bagupada area in Bogra town on the Dhaka-Rangpur highway around 10:15am.