Two persons, including a 38-year-old medicine dealer from Haldia, were killed and three others were injured after the car in which they were travelling collided with a truck on NH14 near Suri town early on Monday.

The five were travelling from Haldia to offer prayers at the Kali temple in Birbhum’s Tarapith when an unidentified truck hit the car and fled away, police said.

Medical merchant Samir Samanta and driver Sheikh Matibul, 35, were declared brought dead by the doctors at Suri district hospital where Samir’s wife Moumita, 32, daughter Shreyashi, 9, and his friend Shibeswar Modak, 38, are undergoing treatment.

“We are apprehending that it was a truck that hit the car and fled away. We are trying to track the vehicle,” said a police officer in Suri.

As the incident happened early in the morning, police said there were no eyewitnesses.