Dhaka, April 10 -- An expatriate Bangladeshi man and his eight-year-old daughter have been killed in a road accident in the US state of New Jersey.

The accident occurred on the Interstate-295 Highway in Burlington County around 10:15pm on Sunday, according to Jeffrey Lebron, spokesman for the New Jersey police.

The dead were identified as Sharfu Uddin, 36, and Ramisa, 8. They hailed from Feni's Farhadnagar.

Sharfu's 26-year-old wife has also been critically injured in the accident and is unconscious at a local hospital.

The family was headed from their home in the city of Elizabeth to Pennsylvania's Delaware County when the accident occurred.

Sharfu was driving a Hyundai Tucson car and his wife and daughter were in the passenger's se...