Staff reporter||
A bus crashed into a microbus in Gopalganj leaving seven people dead on Saturday.The accident on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Kahsiani Upazila on Saturday left at least eight others injured, said police.
All those killed—four men and three women—were passengers of the microbus.
Kashiani police OC Monirul Islam said that the bus hit the microbus, which was parked on the side of the road, killing one on the spot.
The others died after being taken to the Kashiani Upazila Health Complex.
Five of the dead have been identified. They are the microbus driver ‘Hanif’ from Faridpur, Babu Sheikh, Mijanur Rahman, Mehedi Begum and ‘Tania’.
The injured have been taken to the local hospital and two of them were later shifted to the Faridpur Medical College and Hospital, said OC Islam.
Over 50 people died in the last few days in road accidents across Bangladesh after the Eid holidays.