Bus-truck collision kills 5 in Tangail
Tangail: Five people were killed and 15 others injured in a road accident in Kandila area on the Tangail-Bangabandhu Bridge highway in Sadar upazila on Saturday.
Two of the deceased were identified as Jagot, 38, and Birbala.
The accident occurred when a a cement-laden truck collided head-on with a bus in the area at about 1:30pm and the truck fell into a roadside ditch, BSS quoted Tangail Fire Service Station officer Mofijul Islam as saying.
Later, police recovered five bodies from the ditch. The bodies were sent to Tangail Medical College Hospital morgue.
The injured were admitted to the hospital.