Two Bangladeshi students were killed and three others injured in a collision of two cars in New Jersey of the United States on Friday.
The deceased were identified as Shahriyar Uddin Ahmed, 19 and Shakil Ali, 19.
Shahriyar was a second-year student in Electrical Engineering Department at MIT, Boston, and Shakil was a student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California.
The accident occurred at Little Falls of Paterson in New Jersey when two cars collided head-on leaving Shahriyar dead on the spot and injured four others.
The injured were rushed to Saint Joseph’s University Medical Center where Shakil succumbed to his injuries.
M A Salam, founding general secretary of the United States Awami League confirmed the matter.
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