A young man was crushed under the wheels of a truck at Kachubari Bhata village on the Panchagarh-Thakurgaon highway in Sadar upazila on Friday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Samu,40, son of Shajahan Ali, a resident of the same village.Mehedi Hasan, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station, said the Thakurgaon-bound speeding truck coming from Panchagarh hit Samu while he was crossing the road, leaving him dead on the spot.Informed, police recovered the body and sent it to hospital morgue for an autopsy.Police also seized the truck but its driver managed to flee the scene.A case was filed in this connection. -UNB, Thakuagaon
