Two persons, who were relatives, died in different locations within the Kaliachak and Malda police station limits in the Malda district on Monday.
A police source said that Tapesh Rajbanshi, 37, a civic volunteer, was mowed down by a speeding pick-up van on NH12 in Kaliachak around 3am. He was taken to Malda Medical College & Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.
The blood-stained body of farmer Kishan Rajbanshi, 33, was recovered from an agricultural land in Malda. He was a relative of Tapesh.
His family and neighbours suspect that he was murdered. Investigations are on.
Truck collision
A truck loaded with iron rods was crushed when it rear-ended a parked truck on Sunday in Islampur, North Dinajpur. Deep Sarkar, the only passenger of the crushed truck, died on the spot, while the driver suffered serious injuries.
