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6 killed in bus-auto accident in Gaibandha

Nation 2021-11-19, 10:30pm

At least six people were killed in bus-auto collision in Gaibandha on Friday morning.



Gaibandha, Nov 19 :  At least six people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and an auto-rickshaw on the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha on Friday morning.

Officer-in-charge of Gobindaganj police station Mostafizur Rahman said that the accident occurred when the Rangpur-bound passenger bus of Hanif Paribahan hit the auto rickshaw coming from the opposite side near the Bakchar area of the highway.

The crash left three occupants of the auto dead on the spot.

"Five other passengers of the three-wheeler were rushed to the upazila health complex by the local fire service. Of them, three died of their injuries at the hospital," said the OC.

The identities of the casualties could not be known yet. "The bus has been seized but its driver and his assistant are absconding," he added, reports UNB.