Dhaka, Oct. 26 -- Three people, including two schoolchildren, have been killed and two others injured after a truck rammed a three-wheeler in Pabna.

The accident occurred around 7:30am on Sunday in the Bangabaria area of the Pabna-Dhaka Highway.

The dead have been identified as Tasmia Akhtar, a student in fourth grade at Pabna Cadet Collegiate School and College, Abu Toha, a student in fifth grade at the same institution, and three-wheeler driver Akram Hossain.

A battery-operated van rickshaw was carrying students to the institution in the morning when a bamboo-laden truck rammed into it from behind at speed, causing it to overturn, according to Mostafizur Rahman, chief of Madhpur Highway Police Station.

Three people, including two st...