Sylhet: A teenage girl was killed as a truck ran over her after she fell from a motorbike on the Sylhet-Tamabil road at Sarighat in Jointapur upazila on Monday.

The deceased was identified as Shipa Akter, 18, daughter of Siddik Ali of Choitagul Agfoud village in the upazila, reports the UNB.

Mainul Zakir, officer-in-charge of Jointapur Police Station, said Shipa along with her would-be husband was going to her house around 4 pm by a motorbike.

At one stage, a truck ran over Shipa when she fell down from the vehicles as her scarf got entangled with the wheel of the motorbike, leaving her dead on the spot.

Angered by the incident, local people seized the truck and put up a barricade on the Sylhet-Tamabil road, halting traffic movement.

On information, police went to the spot and brought the situation under control.