Jhenaidah, Aug. 17 -- Two Bangladeshi citizens who went to neighboring India for treatment were killed in a road accident in West Bengal's Kolkata early Saturday.

The deceased were identified as Moinul Alam Sohag, 35, son of Md Khalilur Rahman of Vutiyargati village in Jhenaidah municipality area and a senior official of Grameenphone; and Farhana Islam Taniya, daughter of Md Amirul Islam of Dhaka's Lalmatia area and an official of City Bank's Jhenaidah branch.

Kazi Shojib, a cousin of deceased Sohag, said two private cars collided head-on in Shakespeare Sarani of the city at 1:50am on Saturday. At one stage, one of the two cars hit the duo who was waiting beside the road stuck amid heavy rainfall, leaving them critically injured.

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