Five killed in road crash
Sunday, 28 December 2008
DINAJPUR, Dec 27: At least five young workers were killed and 35 passengers wounded when a Thakurgaon-bound bus collided with a sugarcane-loaded tractor at Rampura Square in Kaharrol Upazila Saturday evening. Zakir, Rabiul, Shah Alam, Shahin and Arif - all aged between 15 and 23 and workers of the tractor - died on the spot when the tractor and bus tumbled upside down into a roadside ditch at about 7pm. All the 35 injured are passengers of the bus. Five of them were admitted to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital and 13 to Birganj Health Complex. Confirming the fatal accident police said both the vehicles were seized. — UNB