DHAKA: At least eight people from two families, including four children, were killed as a car veered off a road in Bangladesh's Pirojpur district, 185 km southwest of Dhaka, early on Thursday, a police official said.
"The accident left eight people dead on the spot, " Md Mukit Hasan Khan, additional superintendent of police in Pirojpur, told journalists.
He said the car went off the road and ended up in a canal at about 3 a.m. local time, reports Xinhua news agency.
The exact cause of the accident is under investigation.