Three people including a woman were killed and 12 others injured as a speeding bus hit a broken-down truck on the Bangabandhu Expressway at Ramerkhola under Sirajdikhan upazila of the district early this morning.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Hasara Highway police station Kanchan Kumar Singh said the accident took place in the area around 4am when a Dhaka-bound passenger bus of ‘Labiba Paribahan’ from Kuakata hit the truck from behind and overturned, leaving its three passengers dead on the spot and 12 others injured.
One of the deceased was identified as Hasina Begum, 42, while identities of two others could not be known.
The injured were sent to different hospitals.
Police seized the bus and the truck but drivers of both vehicles managed to flee away.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha