At least 12 people have been killed in collision between a truck and pickup van on Nazirbazar point of Dhaka-Sylhet highway Wednesday morning, reports Daily Sun.
Sources said the accident occurring at Kutubpur area at 6am left 18 others wounded.
Identities of the victims of which 11 died on the spot could not be known immediately.
Md Moniruzzaman, deputy director of Fire Service and Civil Defence, said the injured were taken to Sylhet M.A.G. Osmani Medical College Hospital.
The pickup van carrying labours from Sylhet collided with sand-laden truck.
Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan