Online Desk: A man and his 10-year-old boy were killed in a road accident at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram on Saturday night while returning after Eid shopping. The deceased were Salim Uddin, 40, and his son Minhaj. They met the tragic end of their lives at Boro Darogahat Bazar area on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway around 10pm while returning home.

Kumira highway police outpost in-charge Md Shahadat Hossain said a watermelon-carrying truck hit a standing pickup van at the Boro Darogahat Bazar area losing control. Then the pickup turned turtle on the road and smashed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw carrying Salim and Minhaj.

The duo died on the spot. The bodies were handed over to the family without autopsy, the police official added.