Shamim s wife Meem Akter, 24, was admitted to Kumudini Hospital with injuries.
Mozaffar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Gorai Highway Police Station, said the couple was returning to work in Brahmanbaria after celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr in Akkelpur village of Joypurhat.
The bodies were later handed to the victims families. Police seized both the vehicles and filed a case in this regard, the OC told The Daily Star.
In Gazipur, two bikers were killed when a pick-up van hit their motorcycle from behind on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Kaliakair area around 11:30am.
One of the deceased is Shafiqul Islam Khan, 32, a resident of Nagar Chhaoalee village in Tangail s Mirzapur upazila. The identity of the other victim could not be confirmed till last evening.
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