Four people, including an army man, were killed and 20 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Aricha highway at Joypura bus stand in Dhamrai upazila early Friday. Three of the deceased were identified as Obaidul Haq, 70, hailing from Senbag in Noakhali district, Shamsur Rahman, 40, from Ratanpur in Satkhira district and Shahidul Islam, 24, an army personnel of Rangamati East Bengal Regiment, Bandukchhari in Rangamati. Abdul Jalil, sub-inspector of Dhamrai Police Station, said a Satkhira-bound ‘Saudia Paribahan’ bus from Chittagong skidded off the road and fell into a roadside ditch after colliding head-on with a truck coming from the opposite direction around 1:15 am, leaving three people dead on the spot and 21 others injured. The casualties happened as the bus fell 50 feet deep into the ditch near the highway, said the SI. The injured were rushed to Dhamrai Upazila Health Complex where on-duty doctors declared a woman dead. The truck driver managed to flee with his vehicle. — Savar, June 5 (UNB)
