<div><b>Including four schoolteachers, total five people were killed after a CNG-run auto-rickshaw carrying them was hit by a truck in Sadar upazila of Naogaon this morning.</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>Identities of the deceased could not be known yet, our Natore correspondent reports quoting Abdul Gafur, inspector (operation) Sadar Police Station of Naogaon.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the deceased, four were local school teachers and one person was the auto-rickshaw driver, said the police official.</div><div><br></div><div>The accident occurred at Bablatola on Rajshahi-Naogaon regional highway around 7:30am, said the police inspector.</div><div><br></div><div>Rakibul Islam, additional superintendent of Naogaon police, said the Naogon-bound auto-rickshaw was hit by a truck laden with poultry-feed, which was heading towards Rajshahi, after the auto-rickshaw swerved to the wrong side of the highway to avoid being hit by a soil-laden tractor.</div><div><br></div><div>Two of three-wheel passengers died on the spot and the rest succumbed to their injuries after being taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, added the police official.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>