Road crash claims 16 lives in Gaibandha
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Published: 06:11, 23 June 2018
Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Staff Correspondent, Rangpur: At least 16 people were killed and 30 others injured as a bus overturned on the road before being hit a roadside tree in Gaibandha district early Saturday.
The accident took place around 5.00am in Bashkata BRAC More area of Rangpur-Dhaka highway.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Palashbari Thana Mahmudul Alam said a passenger bus of Alam Enterprise hit a roadside tree as its driver lost control over the steering, leaving eight passengers dead on the spot and 38 injured.
Eight of the injured died on the way to hospital, he added.
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