Popular Bengali folk theatre heroine Bina Dasgupta was killed in a road accident in Burdwan, West Bengal, on Friday.

The police said the car in which Dasgupta and three others were travelling collided with a truck. They were returning from Chapui village in Raniganj police station area after a performance on Thursday night.

While Dasgupta and the driver died on the spot, her co-actor Sudipta Chatterjee and wardrobe assistant Sridhar Das were hospitalised and were in a critical condition, police said.