Faridpur road crash kills mayor’s wife, son

Three people including the wife and son of newly-elected mayor of Nagarkanda municipality were killed as a microbus and a bus collided head-on on the Dhaka-Khulna highway under Nagarkanda upazila of the district last night.

Nimay Sarkar, who was elected mayor of the Nagarkanda municipality in the February 14 polls, was also critically injured.

The deceased were identified as Sanchita Sarkar, 38, Gourab Sarkar, 23, and neighbor Kamal Matubbor.