Bus-truck collision kills 10 in Bogra

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Bogra, June 3 (UNB) -Ten people were killed and 25 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Bogra highway at Dhankundi in Sherpur upazila on Friday. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Ehsan Ali, officer-in-charge of Sherpur Police Station, said the accident occurred around 6am when a Dinajpur-bound bus of ‘Rekha Enterprise’ from Bogra collided head-on with the Dhaka-bound stone-laden truck, coming from the opposite direction, leaving seven people killed on the spot and 28 others injured. The injured were taken to different local clinics and hospitals. Of them, one was declared dead at Sherpur Upazila Health Complex while physicians found two more dead at Bogra Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital. On information, police and firefighters rushed in and recovered the bodies but were yet to salvage the vehicles.

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