Three people, including a mother and her daughter, were killed and six others injured in a head-on collision between a passenger CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a chicken-laden pickup truck in Phulgazi upazila of Feni on Saturday evening, June 27. The accident occurred in front of the Palli Bidyut office near the Phulgazi Upazila Parishad along the Feni-Belonia regional road.

According to eyewitnesses, the collision left the auto-rickshaw severely damaged, injuring several passengers including the driver. Locals rescued the injured and took them to Phulgazi Upazila Health Complex, where a man and a woman were declared dead. Some of the critically injured were later transferred to Feni General Hospital, where another woman died while undergoing treatment. Police confirmed that the bodies were kept at the hospital morgue.

Among the deceased were Kawsar, 32, of North Daulatpur village in Phulgazi Sadar Union, and Wahida Akter Juha of South Pathangor village in Chhagalnaiya upazila. Juha’s daughter, Jakia Akter, later died at the hospital, according to hospital sources.