Rajshahi, Oct. 10 -- A senior faculty member of Rajshahi University (RU) was killed and his colleague critically injured in a road accident on Friday morning in Paba upazila of Rajshahi district.

Police identified the deceased as Shiv Shankar Roy, 58, a professor in the Marketing Department, while Md Asaduzzaman, a colleague from the Department of Philosophy, sustained critical injuries and is receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

According to officer-in-charge Monirul Islam of Paba Police Station, the accident occurred around 7am near the Ansar Camp on the Naogaon-Rajshahi highway in Nowhata area.

"A vehicle collided with the motorcycle on which the two teachers were riding and fled the s...