7 school children killed in Jessore road crash
Saturday, 15 February 2014
JESSORE: Seven primary school students were killed and 40 others injured as a bus carrying picnickers plunged into a pond at Jhautala in Chougachha upazila on Jessore-Meherpur Highway Saturday night.
Officer-in-charge of Chougachha Police Station Motiur Rahman said the bus carrying students of Benapole Government Primary School tumbled into the pond around 8.00pm, leaving the seven dead on the spot and 40 others injured.
The bus was on its way back to Benapole from Mujibnagar of Meherpur district.
The deceased, including five girls, could not be identified immediately, according to a news agency.