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Six killed after truck smashes into parked bus

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Published: 04:30, 23 June 2018   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Six killed after truck smashes into parked bus

Staff Correspondent, Rangpur: At least six people, including two women, were killed and five others injured as a truck hit a bus at Shayelashah area in Rangpur Sadar Upazila early Saturday.

Two of the deceased were identified as, Sajjad, 19 and Nishat, 20.

Police and witnesses said that the accident took place when sand-laden a truck rammed stationary BRTC double-decker bus, leaving six passengers of the bus dead on the spot and five others injured.

Abdullah Hel Baki, officer-in-charge of Taraganj Highway Police said that the BRTC double-decker bus was parked at roadside as a wheel of the bus got punctured. Meanwhile, the truck hit the bus from backside. 

The bodies were kept at Taraganj police station and the injured were sent to Rangpur Medical College Hospital.


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