Online Desk :
A bus has overturned after ramming into an autorickshaw on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway in Patiya, leaving at least six people dead and eight others injured.
The Chattogram-bound Hino Akij Series bus hit the autorickshaw from behind on the bypass in an area between Joludighi and Baiar Dighi around 8:15pm on Monday, said Patiya Police Station chief Rashedul Islam, reports bdnews24.com.
The victims included four passengers and the driver of the autorickshaw, and they died at the scene, he said. The other person was a bus passenger.
One of the victims was identified with a single name as Ismail, 56, and another as Rezaul Karim Rafique, 50 – both from Patiya and passengers of the autorickshaw. Police could not identify the others.
Nine people were injured in the accident and one of them, a bus passenger, died in Patiya Upazila Health Complex, said Rashedul.
Three of the injured were transferred to Chattogram Medical College Hospital. They are Shah Alam, 40, Shukhi Akter, 29, and Zakir Hossain, whose age could not be confirmed.
Pradip Tripura, an official of the Fire Service and Civil Defence who took part in the rescue operation, said four of the victims were male and another was female.
Patiya Highway Police chief Mozaffar Ahmed said the bus driver fled the scene of the incident.
The accident blocked traffic on the highway for over an hour.
