Road accident on Dhaka-Mawa Expressway, 5 dead 

Five people, including three persons of a family, were killed as a bus hit an ambulance on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in the Nimtala area of Sirajdikhan in Munshiganj on Thursday noon.

Two people were injured in the incident. 

The accident occurred at around 1 pm on Thursday (May 8).

However, the deceased and injured could not be identified immediately.

Fire service sources and eyewitnesses said that the ambulance was heading towards Dhaka with a patient. On the way, a wheel got punctured and broke down in the Nimtala area of Sirajdikhan. The driver was repairing the wheel of the ambulance. At that time, a passenger bus of Golden Line Paribahan hit the standing ambulance from behind and crushed the passengers in the ambulance. A woman in the ambulance died on the spot. Seven others were injured. On receiving the information, a rescue team of Srinagar Fire Service and Civil Defense reached the spot and rescued the injured. Four of them, who were seriously injured, were sent to Dhaka for better treatment. The rest were sent to a local health center. 

But the duty doctors of Dhaka Medical College Hospital declared four dead.