Twenty-eight members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) were injured when a pickup van carrying them slammed into a roadside tree after a head-on collision with a truck on the Dhaka-Barisal highway in Chhoymile area of Babuganj upazila on Friday. Asaduzzaman, senior assistant superintendent of police of Barisal APBn, said the accident took place in the area around 7am when a police van carrying 28 members of the force collided head-on with a truck and hit a roadside tree, leaving all the policemen inside injured. The injured were rushed to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital. The APBn members met the accident while going to Gopalganj from Barisal for performing duty ahead of the Prime Minister’s visit there, said the official. — Barisal, Apr 29 (UNB)
