Three people were killed and two others injured after a truck rammed an auto-rickshaw in Kalikaprosad Nayahati area in Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj on Thursday noon.

The identities of the deceased and injured could not be known yet.

The Kishoreganj-bound truck rammed the auto-rickshaw carrying the victims on Kishoreganj-Bhairab highway at 1:15 pm, leaving a passenger of the rickshaw dead on the spot and its four passengers injured, said Mamunur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bhairab police station.

Later, the injured were brought to Upazila Health Complex where duty doctor declared two of them dead, he said.