At least 25 people were killed and 23 injured when a bus veered off the road as the driver lost control over the steering in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur early today. Rescue teams rushed the spot and shifted the injured and the bodies to nearby hospitals.
A Barisal-bound bus of Sonartari Paribahan from Dhaka skidded of the road and plunged into a ditch after hitting a tree in Kaidubi area around 1:30am as the driver lost control over the steering, our Faridpur correspondent reports quoting Jamil Hasan, superintendent of police in Faridpur.
The bodies of 20 persons who died on the spot have been kept at Bhanga Highway Police Station premise while those who died at Faridpur Medical College Hospital were kept at the hospital morgue.
Families and relatives started rushing to the scene and morgue to identify the bodies.
So far, 11 bodies were identified till 11:10am when the report was filed.
The cause of the accident wasn’t clear yet but passengers said the driver apparently lost control. It was not known yet if the driver was among the dead.
Meanwhile, the district administration has been distributing Tk 10,000 to each of dead victim’s family, the local upazila nirbahi officer said.
Thursday 9 April 2015
http://www.thedailystar.net/country/22-killed-faridpur-road-crash-76467
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