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Two Biswa Ijtema devotees were killed and 11 people were injured when a covered van hit an auto-rickshaw at Shilmun of Tongi in Gazipur on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Jony (18), South Sadharchar village in Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi, Sohel (40) of the same village.
The injured were Firoz (50), Jahirul Islam (52), Jisan (22), Zahid Hasan (35), Iqbal Hossain (55), Nazrul Islam (50), Anisur Rahman, Md. Borhan Uddin (50), Basir Uddin (55), and two unidentified people. The condition of the unidentified victims was stated to be critical.
Mostafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Tongi East Police Station of Gazipur Metropolitan Police, said the accident occurred around 7 am.