Two people were killed and at least 15 injured when a bus and a truck collided head-on at Sarail in Brahmanbaria.
The dead were identified as Sourav, 32, and Asif, 26. The crash happened on Saturday morning (24 October) on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in the Bertala area of the upazila.
Sourav was from Parbatipur in Dinajpur. The address of the second victim was not yet known.
At least 15 bus passengers were injured. Three of them were sent to Dhaka in critical condition, and the rest received first aid.
Abdul Halim, officer-in-charge of Khatihata Highway Police Station, said a Diganta Paribahan bus left Rangpur for Sylhet on Friday night. When it reached the Bertala area of Brahmanbaria on Saturday morning, it collided head-on with a sand-laden truck coming from the opposite direction, and the bus overturned on the road.
Police and local people rescued the injured and took them to the district sadar hospital, where Asif and Sourav died while undergoing treatment, he said. Legal action over the crash is under way.
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